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Publication details [#65175]

Helm, Francesca and Tejane Dabre. 2018. Engineering a ‘contact zone’ through translanguaging. Language and Intercultural Communication 18 (1) : 144–156.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | language acquisition | language and culture | migration | mutual understanding

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This article proposes a pilot project which employs a translanguaging method in order to sap the power dynamics whereby language learners, refugees and migrants are placed as imperfect or defective target language communicators.