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To examine how translanguaging is conceptualized, represented, and legitimized across internationalized higher education settings.

August 15, 2026Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

Politics of representation, legitimacy, and multilingual subjects: review of translanguaging in internationalized higher education

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ZSZhiwen SongUniversity of Cincinnati

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Systematic review reveals uneven geographic and socioeconomic representation of translanguaging in higher education, highlighting structural constraints on multilingual agency.

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To examine how translanguaging is conceptualized, represented, and legitimized across internationalized higher education settings.
Conducted a mixed-methods review synthesizing 68 empirical studies on translanguaging in internationalized higher education (N=68).
Applied Basil Bernstein’s theoretical framework of the pedagogic device to analyze the legitimacy and representation of multilingual subjects.
Identified three primary conceptual orientations toward translanguaging: pedagogy, ontology, and transformation.
Demonstrated persistent tensions between multilingual individual agency and enduring institutional and structural constraints in English-medium instruction (EMI) settings.
Found significant geographic, linguistic, and socioeconomic disparities, with empirical research disproportionately concentrated in privileged institutions and low-income regions remaining underrepresented.

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Zhiwen Song (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a801a3a75c2e31742c86d2a https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2026.2718347

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Systematic review reveals uneven geographic and socioeconomic representation of translanguaging in higher education, highlighting structural constraints on multilingual agency.

Politics of representation, legitimacy, and multilingual subjects: review of translanguaging in internationalized higher education

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Politics of representation, legitimacy, and multilingual subjects: review of translanguaging in internationalized higher education

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