Translanguaging as Transformation

Emilee Moore is a Serra Húnter Fellow (Assistant Professor) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. She co-convenes the AILA Research Network on Creative Inquiry in Applied Linguistics.Jessica Bradley is a Lecturer in Literacies in the School of Education, University of Sheffield, UK. She co-convenes the AILA Research Network on Creative Inquiry in Applied Linguistics.James Simpson lectures in Language Education at the School of Education, University of Leeds, UK. He is the co-author of ESOL: A Critical Guide (OUP, 2008, with Melanie Cooke), the editor of The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics (2011), and the co-editor of three further books.

• Ofelia García: Foreword: Co-labor and Re-PerformancesJessica Bradley, Emilee Moore and James Simpson: Translanguaging as Transformation: The Collaborative Construction of New Linguistic Realities                                Part I: Collaborative Relationships            Mike Baynham: Comment on Part I: Collaborative RelationshipsChapter 1. Margaret R. Hawkins: Toward Critical Cosmopolitanism: Transmodal Transnational Engagements of YouthChapter 2. James Simpson: Translanguaging in ESOL: Competing Positions and Collaborative Relationships             Chapter 3. Sari Pöyhönen, Lotta Kokkonen, Mirja Tarnanen and Maija Lappalainen: Belonging, Trust and Relationships: Collaborative Photography with Unaccompanied MinorsChapter 4. Camilo Ballena, Dolors Masats and Virginia Unamuno: The Transformation of Language Practices: Notes from the Wichi Community of Los Lotes (Chaco, Argentina)          Part II: Collaborative Processes Adrian Blackledge: Comment on Part II: Collaborative ProcessesChapter 5. Joëlle Aden and Sandrine Eschenauer: Translanguaging: An Enactive-Performative Approach to Language Education           Chapter 6. Jane Andrews, Richard Fay, Katja Frimberger, Gameli Tordzro and Tawona Sitholé: Theorising Arts-Based Collaborative Research Processes            Chapter Seven. Jessica Bradley and Louise Atkinson: Translanguaging as Bricolage: Meaning Making and Collaborative Ethnography in Community ArtsChapter 8. Emilee Moore and Ginalda Tavares: Telling the Stories of Youth: Co-Producing Knowledge across Social Worlds Part III: Collaborative OutcomesZhu Hua and Li Wei: Comment on Part III: Collaborative OutcomesChapter 9. Lou Harvey: Entangled Trans-ing: Co-Creating a Performance of Language and Intercultural Research Chapter 10.  Kendall A. King and Martha Bigelow: The Hyper-Local Development of Translanguaging PedagogiesChapter 11. Júlia Llompart-Esbert and Luci Nussbaum: Collaborative and Participatory Research for Plurilingual Language Learning          Chapter 12. Claudia Vallejo Rubinstein: Translanguaging as Practice and as Outcome: Bridging across Educational Milieus through a Collaborative Service-Learning Project               Angela Creese: Afterword: Starting from the Other End

This collection of studies constitutes a ground-breaking move towards a much better understanding of translanguaging and its transformative potential in education. The highly creative collaborative projects reported provide a sound empirical basis and clear models for pedagogic intervention that challenge traditional ideas about language and communication.