Positive synergies: Translanguaging and critical theories in education
Edited by Zhongfeng Tian and Holly Link
Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 5:1 (2019) v, 93 pp.
Zhongfeng Tian
List of John Benjamins publications for which Zhongfeng Tian plays a role.
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Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Translation Studies
2025 Chapter 12. Critical collaborative autoethnography Innovative Qualitative Methodologies in Multilingual Literacy Development Research: Amplifying voices from immigrant, transnational, and refugee communities, Kibler, Amanda K. and Fares J. Karam (eds.), pp. 232–252 | Chapter
This chapter explores the transformative potential that applying critical collaborative autoethnography can have in the path towards decolonizing academic writing, a particular type of literacy practice. Traditional research methodologies, both quantitative and qualitative, are critiqued for… read more
2019 Translanguaging in culturally sustaining systemic functional linguistics: Developing a heteroglossic space with multilingual learners Positive synergies: Translanguaging and critical theories in education, Tian, Zhongfeng and Holly Link (eds.), pp. 5–28 | Article
In today’s globalized multilingual classrooms, deficit ideologies tend to disregard the cultural capital and mobile semiotic resources that immigrant and culturally diverse students bring with them (Blommaert 2010). There is a growing need to focus on culturally sustaining pedagogies that… read more
2019 Editorial Positive synergies: Translanguaging and critical theories in education, Tian, Zhongfeng and Holly Link (eds.), pp. 1–4 | Editorial