translanguaging

English

Etymology

From trans- +‎ languaging.

Noun

translanguaging (countable and uncountable, plural translanguagings)

  1. (linguistics) 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.
    • 2020 October 27, Emily Bouza, Tim Cavnar, and Keli Tucker, “Translingualism: An Alternative to Restrictive Monolingual Ideologies in Writing Instruction”, in Another Word[1]:
      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.

Verb

translanguaging

  1. present participle and gerund of translanguage