The emergence over the last 10 years of the analytic concept,
'Translanguaging', has had a forceful impact on the field of Applied
Linguistics. This book addresses how it has contributed to our
understandings of language, bilingualism and education. Ofelia García
and Li Wei trace the development of the theory of Translanguaging and
consider its relationship with traditional theories and models of
language and bilingualism. Based on practices by students and teachers
in a variety of educational contexts, this book describes how
Translanguaging is used by bilingual learners to learn and by teachers
to teach. Ultimately, the book affirms the transformative nature of
Translanguaging; it involves the act of languaging between and beyond
systems that have previously been described as separate, and in so
doing, new meanings emerge and new understandings are generated,
transforming not only semiotic systems and speaker subjectivities, but
also social structures.