Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Multilingual Education
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Multilingual Education
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Prologue
- Acknowledgement
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Content and Language Integrated Learning:
- Part III Teaching Academic Subjects through English Medium Instruction
- Part IV Dual Language Learning, Immersion Programmes, and Learner Agency
- Part V Heritage Language Education
- Part VI Minority Language Education
- Part VII A Critical Look at Multilingual Pedagogies
- 42 Pedagogical Codeswitching and Translanguaging Research in Multilingual Settings
- 43 Translanguaging Pedagogy in the Canadian Context
- 44 Aliens or Allies?
- 45 Is the Transformative Claim about Translanguaging Too Powerful?
- 46 Translanguaging in Chinese University Classrooms
- 47 Codeswitching, Translanguaging, and Linguistic Theory
- 48 Translanguaging in Written Practices of Japanese Students in Higher Education
- Index
- References
48 - Translanguaging in Written Practices of Japanese Students in Higher Education
from Part VII - A Critical Look at Multilingual Pedagogies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 December 2025
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Multilingual Education
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Multilingual Education
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Prologue
- Acknowledgement
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Content and Language Integrated Learning:
- Part III Teaching Academic Subjects through English Medium Instruction
- Part IV Dual Language Learning, Immersion Programmes, and Learner Agency
- Part V Heritage Language Education
- Part VI Minority Language Education
- Part VII A Critical Look at Multilingual Pedagogies
- 42 Pedagogical Codeswitching and Translanguaging Research in Multilingual Settings
- 43 Translanguaging Pedagogy in the Canadian Context
- 44 Aliens or Allies?
- 45 Is the Transformative Claim about Translanguaging Too Powerful?
- 46 Translanguaging in Chinese University Classrooms
- 47 Codeswitching, Translanguaging, and Linguistic Theory
- 48 Translanguaging in Written Practices of Japanese Students in Higher Education
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter contributes to the emerging literature on translanguaging as a resource for second language (L2) teaching and learning. Situated in Japanese higher education, it focuses on the translanguaging practices of Japanese L2 students or emergent bilinguals, who are ‘actively in the process of acquiring knowledge of a second language and developing bilingual languaging skills for use’ (B. Turnbull, 2018a: 1043), by addressing how they deploy translanguaging in L2 written practices as an indicator of the interplay of their complex linguistic repertoire.
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