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Alexander J. Mahmou-Werndli – Written Communication, 2024
In order to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the varied ways multiple language competencies are invoked in scientific communication and publication, this study features a content analysis of a collection of English, French, and Arabic abstracts from 14 articles of Al-Awamia, a Moroccan agronomic journal. Mapping rhetorically…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English, French, Arabic
Yanmei Han – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Translanguaging studies have paid much attention to meaning-making processes, exploring multilingual speakers' strategic selection of linguistic features from a holistic linguistic repertoire to convey meanings, and assuming that multilingual addressees can successfully decode the encoded meanings. Failure in the meaning-interpreting processes in…
Descriptors: Creativity, Code Switching (Language), Bilingualism, Multilingualism
Yuwei Liang; Qi Chen; Ying Li – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2024
Adopting the notions of "identity," "investment" and "translocal scale," this study explores how international students negotiate language choices with multilingual others and construct new sociolinguistic spaces. Interview data with 12 international students at a Chinese university revealed tensions between language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, English, Multilingualism
Emma Portugal; Sean Nonnenmacher – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
Through the analysis of materials such as online articles, blogs, and radio broadcasts, this paper investigates linguistic purism toward Russian and English loanwords in the understudied context of post-Soviet Armenia. Our analysis finds that public commentators categorize potential loanwords as "borrowings" ([foreign characters…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Russian, English, Linguistic Borrowing
Sichani, Behnam Rezvani; Afrouz, Mahmoud; Moinzadeh, Ahmad – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2023
Multilingualism serves an important function in the characterization of an audiovisual product; thus, its representation in translations demands scientific attention. The task of rendering multilingualism in translation becomes more complicated when no or limited access to the original audio content is possible. This being so, this study…
Descriptors: Captions, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Multilingualism
Ayse Ozturk – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2024
In teaching bi/multilingual students, translanguaging underscores "what students know and can do (speak two languages) instead of what they do not know (English)" (Phakeng & Moschkovich, 2013, p. 125). Employing translanguaging strategies in the mathematics classroom can create an inclusive learning environment that values students'…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Group Discussion
Lam, Johnny F. I.; Ieong, Wai In – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2022
This paper aims to explore the development and evolution of multilingual languages in Macau over the past 400 years, as well as the relationship and interaction of these languages with Macau society. The complex relationship between translation and society in multilingual societies is also discussed. By doing so, this study attempts to fill the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Translation, Language Usage
Ebtissam Oraby; Mahmoud Azaz – Applied Linguistics, 2023
Using the tenets of translanguaging and with a focus on Arabic as a diglossic language, we examine the fluid and dynamic practices that transcend the boundaries between/among Standard Arabic, Arabic dialects, and English in content-based instruction in an advanced Arabic literature course. Using conversation analysis, we show how translingual…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Arabic, Dialects, English
?imon, Simona; Stoian, Claudia E.; Dejica-Car?i?, Anca; Kriston, Andrea – SAGE Open, 2021
The era of globalization has led to frequent communication among people with different linguistic and cultural backgrounds, carried out usually in English, the modern lingua franca. English has influenced the languages of the world, which have started to borrow words in order to keep up with progress and internationalization. Anglicisms are used…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Official Languages, Linguistic Borrowing, Multilingualism
Mingming Yuan; Song Hou – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
As a former treaty port and a current Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in China, Shantou occupies unique position in China's interaction with colonialism and globalisation. Through an analysis of English translations in the linguistic landscape (LL) in Shantou, it was found that international, local and regional factors work together to shape the…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Foreign Countries, Translation, Multilingualism
Kusters, Annelies; Fenlon, Jordan – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2022
Historically, fictional productions which use sign language have often begun with scripts that use the written version of a spoken language. This can be a challenge for deaf actors as they must translate the written word to a performed sign language text. Here, we explore script development in "Small World," a television comedy which…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Usage, Sign Language, Creative Activities
Campbell, Akua Asantewaa; Anderson, Jemima Asabea – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2023
This paper examines the determinant factors motivating language choice in churches in coastal Accra, an area characterized by a high degree of urbanization and multilingualism. As this region is also ethnically Gã, we survey the attitudes of Gã congregants to the use of other languages in their churches, bearing in mind the pressure faced by Gã…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Churches, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge
Zacharias, Sally – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2022
The aim of this study is to set out to explore how children living in Polish-English transnational families in the UK develop "symbolic competence" and "symbolic power" in home settings. By focusing on the children's use of metaphor in family discourse when talking about the Moon, from a cognitive discursive perspective, this…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Family Environment, Language Usage, Immigrants
Zheng, Bingjie – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This multi-sited ethnographic study, conducted in two Mandarin-English dual language schools in two states in the U.S., investigates how students from diverse social, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds perceive and navigate bi/multilingualism through dual language education. Drawing on the scalar analysis of video-recorded student interviews,…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, English, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism
Nikolay Slavkov – Educational Linguistics, 2021
This chapter explores the concept of a Dominant Language Constellation (DLC) in a Canadian context and links it to family language policy (FLP) and language of schooling. The focus is on the province of Ontario where English is the majority language and French a minority language, along with various other minority languages, including…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Language Dominance, English