As English continues to spread as an international lingua franca, there is a growing diversity in its use around the world. result, are calls for embracing teaching, learning and assessment of language. At same time, criticism against widely taken language tests such Test Foreign Language (TOEFL) The International Testing System (IELTS) being guided by pervasive ideology monolingual native spea...

This paper looks at the issues of transculturation as explored in auto and semi-autobiographical accounts of linguistic and cultural transitions. The paper also addresses a number of questions about the structure of these texts, the authors’ linguistic competences, as well as questions about the theoretical and conceptual tool which may help us to discuss the issues the writers are reflecting o...

Changes in the supply of and demand for language resources continues to affect the role of large data centers such as the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) and European Language Resource Center (ELRA) within the research communities they serve. The past few years have seen increased demand for: intensively multi-modal resources, larger data sets in high-density languages and new data in low dens...

This article examines Los cristales de la sal (2019), the first novel by Colombian author Cristina Bendek, and its relation within national literary canon. Through analysis of translingual transnational narrative strategies, this identifies a trans-Caribbean poetics in that redefines contours literature creates intertextual ties relations with Caribbean literatures. The concludes dicussion ecol...

This article explores the concept of translinguism and its application in educational environment. The authors have developed a learning model that includes flipped classroom, face-to-face classes, team work project-based learning. study involved 3rd year students (N=26) Peter Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), studying field “Ecology”. During one semester (February 2020 - Jun...

Abstract This study explores how translanguaging has been enacted in a university-wide curriculum transformation project an additional language programme Aotearoa New Zealand. Its aim is to reveal students’ perspectives on integrating Indigenous epistemology into the of beginner-level Chinese course. The survey data, collected from 155 students, show that most students react positively idea emb...

In this paper, I reflect on a project conducted at University of California Berkeley with four colleagues teaching Chinese, Hebrew, Italian and Japanese who decided to engage their students in some the political controversies which native speakers these languages are engaged respective countries. These teachers highly educated, experienced speakers, they all professional non-senate members facu...

Abstract Language in the Balkan region of Southeastern Europe has a complex and turbulent history, acutely embodied tripartite trilingual state Bosnia Herzegovina (BiH) which Bosniaks, Croats, Serbs all make claim to their own mutually-intelligible varieties local “languages”. This study utilizes linguistic landscape methodology consider language use Sarajevo, capital BiH, approximately 20 year...

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 As creative writing research has shown, literary education in the context of teacher at university greatly benefits from collaborative practice forms expression for development literacies and imaginative agency. Accordingly, this study analyses processes outcomes a bilingual songwriting workshop that was carried out 2022 University Strasbourg with 18 student teachers, collabora...