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Translanguaging

Rebranding multilingual practices

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Article outline
  • Psycholinguistic perspective: Cognitive challenges of translanguaging
  • Bridging theoretical divides: (Ubuntu) translanguaging vs. code-switching
  • Conclusion: New paradigms, recency
  • Note
  • References
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