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

Fri May 15 21:00:33 UTC 2026

Dear Colleagues,
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 zhongfeng.tian at rutgers.edu<mailto:zhongfeng.tian at rutgers.edu> & shakina.rajendram at utoronto.ca<mailto:shakina.rajendram at utoronto.ca>
View the full call here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jdI2ILxPFs26CDGaRKx3lrkPUrHJu4CS/view?usp=sharing
Best,
Shakina & Zhongfeng

Zhongfeng Tian (田中锋), Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Bilingual Education

Department of Urban Education

Rutgers University–Newark

Vice Chair, ACTFL Research SIG<https://www.actfl.org/membership/special-interest-groups-sigs>
Associate Editor, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism<https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rbeb20>
Associate Editor, The Modern Language Journal<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15404781>
Associate Editor, Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education<https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/hdim20/about-this-journal#editorial-board>

(Faculty Webpage<https://sasn.rutgers.edu/zhongfeng-tian-tianzhongfeng>; ResearchGate<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zhongfeng-Tian>; LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/in/%E4%B8%AD%E9%94%8B-%E7%94%B0-031803b8/>; Scopus<https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57218559453>)

New books:

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Translanguaging in Action in English-Medium Classrooms: A Resource Book for Teachers<https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/translanguaging-in-action-in-englishmedium-classrooms-9781350453586/>
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Asian Americans in Bilingualism and Bilingual Education: The Long Overdue Voice<https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/asian-americans-in-bilingualism-and-bilingual-education/?SF1=work_id&ST1=CVIEW-682d9e893bdec>
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Decolonizing Academic Writing Through Translingualism: Walking the Talk<https://www.routledge.com/Decolonizing-Academic-Writing-through-Translingualism-Walking-the-Talk/Christiansen-TianTianZhongFeng-Canagarajah/p/book/9781032764351>

New special issues:

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Generative Artificial Intelligence in Second Language Writing<https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/10X1P179M03>
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Integrating Translanguaging, Multimodality, and Arts-Based Pedagogies in Multilingual Classrooms<https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rllj20/54/2>

New articles:

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Language Teacher Identity and Translanguaging<https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003495390-25/language-teacher-identity-translanguaging-zhongfeng-tian-jiaxuan-zong>
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Bilingual Education and Translanguaging<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/397821078_Bilingual_Education_and_Translanguaging>
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Cultivating Critical Racial Consciousness in Dual Language Bilingual Education Through AsianCrit-Informed Translanguaging Lessons<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/400349274_Cultivating_critical_racial_consciousness_in_dual_language_bilingual_education_through_AsianCrit-informed_translanguaging_lessons>
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Latina Mother and Teacher Insights and Narratives at the Intersection of Dual Language Bilingual Education and Special Education<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15235882.2026.2625672>
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Conceptualizing the Transformativeness of Translanguaging: A Spectrum Perspective<https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.70011>
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Translanguaging for Equity and Justice in Assessment: A Systematic Review<https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci15111567>
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