<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px">Dear Colleagues, </span></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(5,5,5)">Zhongfeng Tian and I are excited to share our co-edited special issue “Centering Southern Perspectives in Translanguaging Research” published in Critical Inquiry in Language Studies (</span><span style="font-size:15px;margin:0px;color:rgb(5,5,5)"><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hcil20/20/3?fbclid=IwAR2P5l03OJLS3k0BZOeWyqeUD3iIOq-_3DKLQmRMBHSOQ14M1ydOCYVVXpQ" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="m_4861538110645440307m_7960108344136695017OWAe4f50c66-69f9-c44d-72e1-a99358d6dd10" title="Original URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hcil20/20/3?fbclid=IwAR2P5l03OJLS3k0BZOeWyqeUD3iIOq-_3DKLQmRMBHSOQ14M1ydOCYVVXpQ. Click or tap if you trust this link." style="margin:0px;display:inline;list-style:none;text-decoration:none;box-sizing:border-box;outline:currentcolor" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px">https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hcil20/20/3</span></a></span><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(5,5,5)">). This special issue features four articles, contributed by scholars who are both residing in and have deep connections with the Global South contexts, and a commentary by Professor Li Wei</span><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(5,5,5)">. </span><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(5,5,5)">Using a mixture of methodological tools, the papers offer </span><span style="font-size:15px;margin:0px;color:rgb(5,5,5)"><a style="color:rgb(56,88,152);margin:0px"></a></span><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(5,5,5)">new possibilities to problematize and expand translanguaging as a construct in various classroom contexts in China, South Africa, Brazil, Australia, and Canada to better understand pertinent issues of (English) language teaching/learning in relation to a broader agenda of achieving linguistic, epistemic and social justice. This special issue emphasizes the significance of (re)centering southern perspectives in translanguaging research and decentralizing traditional knowledge construction that favors the Global North. </span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(5,5,5)"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(5,5,5)"><img src="cid:ii_ln8xh34x0" alt="unnamed.png" width="709" height="492" style="margin-right:0px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(5,5,5)"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(5,5,5)"><br></span></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Kindest regards</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="BN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Shonar Bangla",serif;color:rgb(56,118,29)">রাফি</span><span lang="BN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(56,118,29)">/</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Rafi (preferred name)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Dr Abu Saleh Md Rafi</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(32,33,36)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><a href="https://ulab.edu.bd/faculty/abu-saleh-mohammad-rafi-phd" target="_blank">Assistant Professor</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(32,33,36)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Department of English & Humanities</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(32,33,36)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/language-and-culture-research-centre/people-and-projects/adjunct-research-fellows/abu-saleh-mohammad-rafi" target="_blank">Adjunct Lecturer</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(32,33,36)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">James Cook University, Australia</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(32,33,36)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(32,33,36)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(106,168,79);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Selected publications </span></b></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amad052" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">Rafi, A.S.M. (2023d). The Invention of Multilingualism (David Gramling) and Multilingual Perspectives on Translanguaging (Jeff MacSwan), Applied Linguistics, Oxford University Press. </a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> </span></li></ul><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://10.1515/9783110799521-002" target="_blank">Rafi, A.S.M. (2023c). Language weaponization, missed opportunities, and transformational spaces in Bangladeshi English departments: A biographical perspective.De Gruyter.</a></span></li></ul><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2023-0086" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank"><font color="#954f72"><u>Rafi, A.S.M. (2023b). Creativity, criticality and translanguaging in assessment design: Perspectives from Bangladeshi higher education. </u></font><i>Applied Linguistics Review (ALR).</i></a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> </span></li></ul><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/19463014.2022.2046621" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:11pt" target="_blank"><font face="Times New Roman, serif" style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:11pt">Rafi, A.S.M. & Morgan, A.M. (2022e). Translanguaging and Power in Academic Writing Discourse. </span></font><b style="font-size:11pt"><i>Classroom Discourse</i>.</b></a></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/15427587.2022.2090361" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:11pt" target="_blank">Rafi, A.S.M., & Morgan, A.M. (2022d). Blending translanguaging and CLIL: Pedagogical benefits and ideological challenges in a Bangladeshi classroom. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies.</a></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/15348458.2021.2004894" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">Rafi, A.S.M., & Morgan, A.M. (2022c). Translanguaging as a transformative act in a reading classroom: Perspectives from a Bangladeshi private university. <b><i>Journal of Language, Identity & Education</i></b>.</a></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(71,130,46);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Read more:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rafi-Saleh-2" style="color:rgb(109,133,131)" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rafi-Saleh-2</font></a></span><span style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(71,130,46);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">My doctoral thesis through Australian National Library: </span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font color="#000000"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/5n7jyru6" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/5n7jyru6</a></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font color="#000000"></font></span></p><span><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></p></span></div></div></div></div>