- Title
- Understanding the translingual practices among international students in multilingual cities
- Creator
- Yin, Yijun; Chik, Alice; Falloon, Garry
- Date
- 2023
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/197394
- Identifier
- vital:18860
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1075/aral.20070.yin
- Identifier
- ISSN:0155-0640
- Identifier
- https://research-management.mq.edu.au/ws/portalfiles/portal/228347958/156026254_AV.pdf
- Abstract
- The impact of global mobility and technology innovations on urban linguistic diversity poses a key challenge to understand how and to what extent international students are immersed in the target language. Such diversity of languages and modes of communication has pointed to a fundamental transformation in the way that international students interact with both online and offline resources. The translingual practices of Chinese international students presented in this study suggest that, instead of being a language learner in an English-dominant country, these students make use of but go beyond their full repertoires to conduct various online and offline activities when living in a translanguaging space. An evaluation of both online and offline practices demonstrates how their online translingual practices were merged into offline contexts, to create opportunities for learning and social engagement. Understanding international students’ experience with both online and offline resources provides useful insights into the translingual practices and processes adopted by them when living and studying in a multilingual city.
- Relation
- Australian review of applied linguistics Vol. 46, no. 1 (2023), p. 54-75
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 3904 Specialist studies in education; 4704 Linguistics; Australia; Higher education; International students; Multilingualism; New Zealand; Technology; Translingual practice
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