New Special Issue Alert - Integrating Translanguaging, Multimodality, and Arts-Based Pedagogies in Multilingual Classrooms

[Zhongfeng Tian]

Dear Members of the SIG, 

We are delighted to share our latest Special Issue, Integrating Translanguaging, Multimodality, and Arts-Based Pedagogies in Multilingual Classrooms (Guest Editors: Dr. Shakina Rajendram & Dr. Zhongfeng Tian), now published in The Language Learning Journal.

You can access the full Special Issue here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rllj20/54/2

This Special Issue examines how translanguaging, multimodal, and arts-based pedagogies can foster creativity, criticality, and equity across diverse language learning contexts. Together, the contributions offer rich examples of how teachers, learners, families, and communities draw on their full linguistic, semiotic, cultural, and artistic repertoires to reimagine language education.

Contributions include:

Integrating translanguaging, multimodality, and arts-based pedagogies in multilingual classrooms — Shakina Rajendram & Zhongfeng Tian https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09571736.2026.2630564

Arts-rich translanguaging in community spaces: Vietnamese Australian parents đi chơi with collaborative bookmaking — Julie Choi & Liz Murray
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09571736.2025.2564705

Translanguaging and transpositioning: digital identity texts as sites of equity-based praxis in teacher education — Chuan Liu, Julie D’Ippolito & Lihan Wu
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09571736.2026.2613094

‘The painting is a mirror for my identity’: multimodal arts-based translanguaging pedagogy for social justice in Chinese-medium instruction — Qianyu Yang, Huixin Wang, Yongqi Zeng & Haiyan Wang
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09571736.2025.2578333

Brokering content communication through translanguaging: teachers’ discursive practices in Philippine EMI online mathematics classrooms — Karizza P. Bravo-Sotelo, James McLellan & Noor Azam Haji-Othman
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09571736.2025.2612179

Fostering linguistic and epistemic inclusion among multilingual students through translanguaging and multimodal composition — Jeevan Karki, Sandro Barros & Laxmi Prasad Ojha
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09571736.2025.2598286

A multilingual learner’s lens: Freedom School as a Third Space for translingual and multimodal literacies — Mengying Xue & Breanya Hogue
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09571736.2026.2627573

Translingual spoken word poetry in an online English for academic purposes class — Jennifer Burton
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09571736.2026.2628332

Multimodal translanguaging pedagogy as transformative praxis in refugee education: fostering engagement, integration, and disrupting linguistic hierarchies — Esma Yildirim, Tuba Yilmaz & Cemile Dogan
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09571736.2026.2628330

When teaching mirrors complex identities: hybrid translanguaging practices of multilingual teachers in a Two-Way Immersion (TWI) programme — Hala Sun
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09571736.2026.2633343

Building on this Special Issue, we are also inviting chapter proposals for an edited volume currently under consideration with Wiley-Blackwell: Translanguaging and the Arts: Expanding Possibilities for Language Learning and Teaching

Abstract deadline: June 30, 2026

Submission: Please email a 400-word abstract to zhongfe...@rutgers.edu & shakina....@utoronto.ca 

View the full call here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jdI2ILxPFs26CDGaRKx3lrkPUrHJu4CS/view?usp=sharing

Best,

Shakina & Zhongfeng