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34 - Travelling Back and Forth between Local Language Variation and Global Multilingualism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2022

By
Piet van Avermaet  and
Sven Sierens
Edited by
Gail Prasad ,
Nathalie Auger  and
Emmanuelle Le Pichon Vorstman
Gail Prasad
Affiliation:
York University, Toronto
Nathalie Auger
Affiliation:
University of Montpellier
Emmanuelle Le Pichon Vorstman
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Summary

Rahat Zaidi shapes her reflection on her experiences in Iran, North America, and Europe and on the lives of her own daughters in Canada to develop specific multilingual practices that can foster transculturation and strengthen the hybrid identities of newly arrived students.

Keywords

migrationcommunity and family languagespost-colonial legacycultural boundary crosserpost-colonial Canadadual language booksdecontextualized languagemultiliteracy skillshybrid identitytransculturalism
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Multilingualism and Education
Researchers' Pathways and Perspectives
 , pp. 280 - 289
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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