Translanguaging and Spatial Repertoire in Transnational Multilingual Students' Online Information-Seeking

• In Event: Language Perspectives: Ideologies, Programs, and Awareness

Abstract

This study adopts a translanguaging and spatial orientation to examine the language practices and perceptions of Chinese international students as they engaged in online information seeking in the United States. The finding illustrates how students gathered information through negotiating language norms and strategically configuring diverse resources embedded in various spatiotemporal scales to accomplish learning tasks and develop more open and flexible attitudes towards language use. The result from the study calls for an expanded conceptualization of information literacy of transnational multilingual students and shows the importance of creating a space that allows transnational students to engage in information seeking that incorporates the value of translanguaging and spatial repertoire in generating their situated information literacy for achieving learning goals.

Author

• Huan Gao, University of Memphis
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