Advocacy in Translanguaging Education

Edina Krompák is Professor of Educational Sciences and Head of the Institute of Language Learning and Teaching and Educational Linguistics at the University of Teacher Education Lucerne as well as lecturer at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Currently, her research interests are the relationships between linguistic landscape and educational spaces, translanguaging in education, language and identity, and multimodality in language learning and teaching.

Stephan Meyer is Head of English and coordinators of Arabic, Chinese and Japanese at the Language Centre at the University of Basel, Switzerland, where he teaches English as an academic lingua franca and develops interventions for the promotion of multilingualism in higher education. His interests include academic discourse, multilingualism and social theory.

Elena Makarova is Professor of Educational Sciences and Director of the Institute for Educational Sciences at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Her research focuses on development, learning and teaching in the face of heterogeneity in the school context, inclusion and exclusion processes due to origin, and gender in educational settings and developmental trajectories.