Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 July 2026
This chapter presents twenty translanguaging activities to exemplify some of the many ways that we can use translanguaging in our classrooms. We have included activities across the educational spectrum, from primary to secondary, tertiary and adult stages, and at low, medium and high levels of English language proficiency. Activities are loosely categorised in four groups: thinking activities (including translanguaging think-pair-share, shared language buddies, translingual task planning and home language spaces), visual and spatial activities (including bilingual posters, linguistic landscapes, translanguaging picture description and conversations around us), people activities (including languages we know, our stories, multilingual peer mediation and reading to family and caregivers) and texts activities (including translingual jigsaws, translingual shared reading, translingual text summary, group story reading, translingual PQRST, translingual text annotation, song subtitling and translingual story writing). Each activity is justified, introduced and the procedure is explained with notes regarding adaptation, alternatives and materials and resources required (if any).
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