Remaking Multilingualism: A Translanguaging Approach - Paperback

by Bahar Otcu-Grillman (Editor), Maryam Borjian (Editor)

This book is both a collection of cutting-edge research in the areas of multilingualism, translanguaging and bilingual education by leading scholars in these fields, and a tribute to the research and influence of Ofelia García. The chapters use a variety of methodological approaches and research designs to address topics across language policy, sociology of language and bilingual education, representing the full breadth of Ofelia García's scholarship. Combined with the empirical chapters are more personal chapters which testify to the contributions Ofelia has made as a mentor, colleague and friend. The book recognizes Ofelia García's place at the centre of a movement to remake multilingualism in the service of linguistic equality, justice, pluralism, diversity and inclusion in schools and societies worldwide.

Author Biography

Bahar Otcu-Grillman is an Associate Professor of TESOL/Bilingual Education in the Literacy and Multilingual Studies Department at Mercy College, New York, USA. She is the co-editor of Bilingual Community Education and Multilingualism: Beyond Heritage Languages in a Global City (with Ofelia García and Zeena Zakharia, 2013, Multilingual Matters).

Maryam Borjian is an Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics in the Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA. She is the author of English in Post-Revolutionary Iran (2013, Multilingual Matters) and editor of Language and Globalization: An Autoethnographic Approach (2017, Routledge).