Series | SAIL
Edited book | Policies and Practices for Linguistic Education, Multilingualism and Intercultural Communication
Chapter | Il translanguaging in un compito di scrittura collaborativa fra studenti universitari plurilingui

Il translanguaging in un compito di scrittura collaborativa fra studenti universitari plurilingui

This paper presents preliminary results of a study on the effects of translanguaging in a collaborative reading and writing task. University students of immigrant background, paired according to shared language/s of origin, completed the tasks in two different sessions, one during which they were allowed to only use Italian, and another during which they were encouraged to make use of their whole repertoire. Participants’ perceptions about the different approaches were subsequently collected by means of a semi-structured interview. Based on preliminary data analysis, it is possible to identify elements pointing towards a positive effect of translanguaging, among which a positive outcome in task completion, especially in the one concerning vocabulary.


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Submitted: Oct. 16, 2020 | Published: May 24, 2021 | Language: it

Keywords Foreign university students Italian L2 Language Education Higher Education Translanguaging

Copyright © 2021 Eleonora Piangerelli. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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