2016/12/06 Translanguaging as a Theory of Language by Prof Li Wei

Professor Li Wei is Chair of Applied Linguistics and Director of the UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK. His co-publication Translanguaging: Language, Bilingualism and Education won the 2015 British Association of Applied Linguistics Book Prize, and his current work focuses on the creativity and criticality of multilingual and multimodal language users.

[@kiyoaki1985]

Great lecture, it's surprisingly hard to find real academic lectures on this topic on youtube compared to other topics, it's mostly useless ted talks and popular science aimed at teachers. In my family we regularly switch between three languages and I've always felt that the way multilinguals use languages isn't really understood by those who only speak one language habitually. It really isn't like having distinct, separate skills but more like a single speaking ability that draws from different sources.

[@ThandolwethuSpace]

this lecture has been very helpful for my anthropology translanguaging assignment. thank you!

[@lic.davidhincapiegomez6470]

😍😍😍😍😍