Translanguaging silence and humor
Registering, resisting, and reconstructing identities in an English‐medium classroom in the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17366394 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gengqi Xiao (0000-0001-9974-383X, Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition University of Wisconsin‐Madison Madison Wisconsin USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 110 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 240-266 |
| Publication date | 2026-01-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Language Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-7902 • E-ISSN: 1540-4781 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/modl.70024 |
| OpenAlex | W7120140966 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 46 |
This article adopts a translanguaging and flows perspective to explore how a graduate course instructor constructs a “quiet student” identity through a historical speech event to explain academic concepts in an English‐medium‐instruction (EMI) classroom in the United States. Recent studies on translanguaging pedagogies in EMI classrooms have highlighted how multilingual, multimodal, and multisemiotic resources are employed through translanguaging practices to facilitate understanding. The present study contributes to this growing body of research by focusing on how student identities, constructed through silence and humor in a speech event, are used to explain academic concepts through translanguaging in sequential speech events. Data are drawn from a larger research project examining EMI and multilingualism at a US university. Classroom interaction recordings are analyzed using multimodal conversation analysis, triangulated with video‐stimulated recall interviews and ethnographic field notes, revealing that EMI instructors play a pivotal role in constructing student identities through translanguaging in the classroom, which can subsequently be utilized to enhance the explanation of academic concepts
Conversation · Ethnography · Identity (music) · Multilingualism · Perspective (graphical) · Silence · Translanguaging · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Multilingual Education and Policy · Second Language Learning and Teaching
Literacy as Translingual Practice
Identity and Language Learning
Translanguaging
English Medium Instruction
Native-speakerism
Towards a Dynamic Conceptual Framework for English-Medium Education in Multilingual University Settings
Translingual Practice as Spatial Repertoires
Constructing Playful Talk through Translanguaging in English Medium Instruction Mathematics Classrooms
Transitioning between ‘Outside’ and ‘Inside’ Knowledge in an Online University EMI Chemistry Course
Silence in the Second Language Classrooms of Japanese Universities
Transpositioning
Rethinking translanguaging
Empowering Students Through the Construction of a Translanguaging Space in an English as a First Language Classroom
Transpositioning in English medium instruction classroom discourse
Translanguaging in content-based EMI classes through the lens of Turkish students
Translanguaging in the classroom
Shaping student responses into academic expressions
Problematizing EMI language policy in a transnational world
Translanguaging challenges in multilingual classrooms
Multiple Temporalities of Language and Body in Interaction
Transformative pedagogy for inclusion and social justice through translanguaging, co-learning, and transpositioning
English and more
Sustaining Critical Approaches to Translanguaging in Education
Negotiating Participation and Identity in Second Language Academic Communities
Living Language
Translanguaging as a Practical Theory of Language
Identity and a Model of Investment in Applied Linguistics
Translanguaging Identities and Ideologies
The local constitution of multimodal resources for social interaction
Towards a typology of silence
Moment Analysis and translanguaging space
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |