Translanguaging as a Norm in Multilingual Education: An Example from Poland

Piotr Romanowski
University of Warsaw (Poland)

Abstract. This paper discusses the functioning of translanguaging in the context of international schools in Poland. In the introductory part various definitions of the concept undertaken by linguists since its coining in 1994 have been presented. An exemplary lesson is explored in the final part of the paper where the huge potential of translanguaging for language education and content learning in multilingual contexts is revealed.

Keywords: translanguaging; multilingual education multilingual speakers; pedagogical strategy; content learning

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Foreign Language Teaching, Number 1/2019, Volume 46 PHONETICAL-MORPHOLOGICAL AND SEMANTIC ADAPTATION OF THE GENERAL LEXICAL ELEMENTS OF TURKIC ORIGIN IN BULGARIAN AND FRENCH LANGUAGE Theater as a Cultural Code of the Russian Language Nestor Markov and his Contribution to Foreign Language Learning in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries