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ERIC Number: EJ1419697
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1038-1562
EISSN: EISSN-1839-4728
Multilingual Representation Matters: An In-Depth Analysis of Translanguaging in "Dear Primo: A Letter to My Cousin"
Lindsey Moses
Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, v46 n3 p285-300 2023
Language and literacy are inextricably linked with identity, yet most children experience children's literature in schooling contexts in only one language. For many students, this language is not their home or preferred language, so they rarely, if ever, see their home language represented in school and children's literature. While the number of bilingual children's texts is increasing, the majority of these texts continue to privilege English and present a distinct separation of languages that is not representative of multilingual communicative practices. People who are multilingual engage in translanguaging, a dynamic and flexible process using all their linguistic resources that results in new and sophisticated communicative practices. This paper draws upon translanguaging theories (García "The Reading Teacher," 73(5), 557-562, 2020; Wei "Applied Linguistics," 39(1), 9-30, 2018) and multimodal perspectives (Serafini, 2022) to investigate the linguistic representations and ways languages are privileged in "Dear Primo: A Letter to My Cousin" (Tonatiuh, 2010). Instances of translanguaging throughout the text are identified and analyzed for the ways the author/illustrator uses these instances to engage within a variety of purposes, systems, and structures (Wei "Journal of Pragmatics," 43(5), 1222-1235, 2011). Building on the translanguaging analysis, a multimodal analysis is utilized to examine the use of semiotic resources in the representation of language, translanguaging, and multilingualism within the modes of written language and illustration.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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