Name: Emerging Perspectives on Translanguaging in Multilingual University Classrooms
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Emerging Perspectives on Translanguaging in Multilingual University Classrooms

Edited By: Vimbai Mbirimi-Hungwe, Taurai Hungwe, Solly Matshonisa Seeletse

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This collection challenges the view that translanguaging should only be used by language teachers. Through practical descriptions of its use in science and maths classrooms, it shows how this pedagogy can be a vehicle to help students understand difficult academic concepts.

This collection highlights research conducted by academics from the fields of science and English language studies. The contributions gathered here bring out the importance of…

This collection highlights research conducted by academics from the fields of science and English language studies. The contributions gathered here bring out the importance of using a translanguaging approach to teaching subject content. The volume responds to the generally agreed custom among academics that translanguaging should only be used by language teachers and lecturers. The practical descriptions of how translanguaging has been, and can be, used in science and maths classrooms show that translanguaging pedagogy should not be a tool to be used by language lecturers only. The volume shows that there are emerging perspectives with regards to teaching maths and science where translingual pedagogy can be used as a vehicle towards assisting students to understand difficult academic concepts.

Vimbai Mbirimi-Hungwe is a Lecturer in the Department of Language Proficiency at Sefako Makgatho University of Health Sciences, South Africa. She has just completed her PhD studies, and recently published an article in the South African Applied Languages Studies journal.

Taurai Hungwe is a Computer Science Lecturer at Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, South Africa. He has two Master’s degrees, one in Information Technology (MIT ICT Management) and another in Education (Educational Technology). He has published a number of journal articles on the use of translanguaging in the teaching of computer science.

Solly Matshonisa Seeletse is a Professor and Head of the Department of Statistics and Operations Research, at Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, South Africa. He has authored and co-authored over 60 publications in various journals. His main research speciality is time series analysis.

Natalia Barranco Izquiero, Poliana Claudiano Calazans, M. Teresa Calderón-Quindós, Jagta Kaur Chawla, Kyria Rebeca Finardi, Hiroki Hanamoto, Karin N. R. Indart, Sohelia Mahernia, Martinez-Arbelaiz Asuncion, Mostari Hind Amel, Nidhi Nema, Ishbez Pereira, Edenize Ponzo Peres, Vimbai Mbirimi-Hungwe, Solly Matshonisa Seeletse