Reilly, Colin and Gibson, Hannah and Costley, Tracey and Kula, Nancy (2025) Deconstructing Boundaries and Building Translanguaging Spaces for Effective Multilingual Learning. NORRAG, 11.
Reilly, Colin and Gibson, Hannah and Costley, Tracey and Kula, Nancy (2025) Deconstructing Boundaries and Building Translanguaging Spaces for Effective Multilingual Learning. NORRAG, 11.
Reilly, Colin and Gibson, Hannah and Costley, Tracey and Kula, Nancy (2025) Deconstructing Boundaries and Building Translanguaging Spaces for Effective Multilingual Learning. NORRAG, 11.
Abstract
The monolingualizing of education has constructed artificial educational spaces disconnected from the lived multilingual reality of individuals. We discuss how boundaries are created and maintained and how this negatively affects learning in Botswana, Tanzania, and Zambia. We conclude by advocating for the introduction of translanguaging spaces in education to deconstruct boundaries and provide more equitable, inclusive, and multilingual approaches to education.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Additional Information: | Article is featured in a NORRAG Special Issue, 'Multilingualism and Language Transition: Innovations and Possibilities'. published by the NORRAG Global Education Centre https://www.norrag.org/ |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Language and Linguistics, Department of |
| SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jun 2025 10:52 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2025 10:52 |
| URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/40849 |
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