65.069 - Exploring Technology-Mediated Transnational Language and Literacy Engagements

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session considers communications and interactions of youth and families as they leverage and utilize digital resources in transglobal encounters and connections. Drawing on sociocultural and sociolinguistic frames and themes, we explore translanguaging, transliteracies, translingual practice, and complex repertoires in collaborative meaning-making, and in constructing and sustaining human relationships through situated communications across space and time. We discuss ways of conceptualizing, researching and understanding translanguaging- and trans-literacying-in-practice across global divides (e.g., geographic, linguistic, cultural, generational) via technology, identifying theoretical and methodological approaches to better understand the lived communicative transnational practices of youth and families, and to explore their affordances for education and schooling.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Second Language Research

Chair

• Margaret R. Hawkins, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Papers

• Multilingual Practices in Transnational Digital Contexts - Wan Shun Eva Lam, Northwestern University; P. Zitlali Morales, University of Illinois at Chicago

• The Emergence of Transnational Literacy and Language Practices in Immigrant Families - Catherine F. Compton-Lilly, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Transnational Flows of Digital Media as a Resource for Language Maintenance - Silvia C Nogueron-Liu, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Languaging Across Borders: Semiotic Affordances and Meaning-Making in Transnational Digital Communications Among Youth - Margaret R. Hawkins, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Discussant

• Doris S. Warriner, Arizona State University