Translanguaging and Multimodality as Flow, Agency, and a New Sense of Advocacy in and from the Global South

This volume provides six distinct frameworks for integrating translanguaging and multimodality as pedagogical possibilities in today’s classrooms and beyond. It was originally published as a special issue of Pedagogies: An International Journal.

Raúl Alberto Mora is Associate Professor at the School of Education and Pedagogy at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellín, Colombia (currently teaching remotely from Norway). His research explores second-language literacies in cities and gaming communities and the potential for alternative literacies as pedagogical proposals in second language education.

Zhongfeng Tian is Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education at Rutgers University-Newark, USA. His research centres on working with classroom teachers to provide bi/multilingual students with equitable and inclusive learning environments in ESL and dual language bilingual education contexts and preparing culturally and linguistically competent teachers with social justice orientations.

Ruth Harman is Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education and an adjunct faculty in the Linguistics Department at the University of Georgia. Her research has focused on innovative pedagogical and research practices that promote disciplinary literacy development, youth civic engagement, and critical semiotic awareness.