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Meaning of translanguaging | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

The dynamic process whereby multilingual language users mediate complex social and cognitive activities through strategic employment of multiple semiotic resources to act, to know, and to be.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“The idea of translingualism, as it is often called in composition studies or translanguaging as it is often called in linguistics, rejects the monolingual norm.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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