translanguaging

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noun

The dynamic process whereby multilingual language users mediate complex social and cognitive activities through strategic employment of multiple semiotic resources to act, to know, and to be.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nountranslanguaging (countable and uncountable, plural translanguagings)

plural translanguagings

  1. countableuncountablehuman sciencesThe dynamic process whereby multilingual language users mediate complex social and cognitive activities through strategic employment of multiple semiotic resources to act, to know, and to be.

    The idea of translingualism, as it is often called in composition studies or translanguaging as it is often called in linguistics, rejects the monolingual norm.

    2020 October 27, Emily Bouza, Tim Cavnar, and Keli Tucker, “Translingualism: An Alternative to Restrictive Monolingual Ideologies in Writing Instruction”, in Another Word
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of translanguage

Origin

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APA

translanguaging. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/translanguaging

MLA

“translanguaging.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/translanguaging. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “translanguaging,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/translanguaging.

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