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Title Multilingual and multimodal resources in L2 English content classrooms

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The article was published on 2011-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 20 citations till now.

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Classroom code-switching: Three decades of research

TL;DR: A review of the historical development of different research paradigms and approaches adopted in studies on classroom code-switching is provided in this article, where the difficulties and problems faced by this field of studies are discussed and critical reflections on how this field might move forward in the future.
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Conceptualising the Potential Role of L1 in CLIL.

TL;DR: Littlewood et al. as discussed by the authors argued that content and language integrated learning (CLIL) has a good potential of distinguishing itself from monolingual L2 immersion education models by becoming more flexible and balanced about the role of L1 in CLIL lessons.
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Toward Paradigmatic Change in TESOL Methodologies: Building Plurilingual Pedagogies From the Ground Up

TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on the case of Hong Kong to illustrate how, in the past four decades, deep-rooted ideologies of linguistic purism combined with dominant TESOL knowledge claims have made it difficult to develop locally appropriate methodologies.
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Theories of trans/languaging and trans-semiotizing: implications for content-based education classrooms

TL;DR: Translanguaging theories emphasize a fluid, dynamic view of language and differ from code-switching/mixing theories by de-centring the analytic focus from the language(s) being used in the interaction to the speakers who are making meaning and constructing original and complex discursive practices Trans-semiotizing theories further broaden the focus to analyse language as entangled with many other semiotics (eg visuals, gestures, bodily movement) in meaning making as discussed by the authors.
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Translanguaging as Dynamic Activity Flows in CLIL Classrooms

TL;DR: In this article, the role of translanguaging in facilitating content and language integrated learning (CLIL) is examined in connection with the notion of academic language across the curriculum in English-Arabic.
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Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research Settings

TL;DR: The authors provides a survey of approaches to various genres of language, and considers these in relation to communication and task-based language learning, as well as examples of different genres and how they can be made accessible through genre analysis.
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Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a theory of multimodal discourse for the age of interactive media and provide students with a wide-ranging analysis of various communication styles and the ways by which text is now understood as the interaction of sound, music, vision, colour and language.