Commentary published In: Epistemological issue: Translanguaging
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:1] 2025
► pp. 92–97
Commentary
Does ‘translanguaging’ equal ‘reasoning in multiple languages?’
Back to the basics of translanguaging as a way forward
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Published online: 21 January 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.24068.tor
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.24068.tor
Article outline
- 1.Is the Unitary Model necessary for pedagogical translanguaging?
- 2.Back to the basics of translanguaging: The benefits of reasoning in multiple languages
- 3.Psycholinguistic evidence on the benefits of translanguaging
- 4.Conclusions
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