This assignment asks you to write an essay that analyzes one or more texts using a translingual approach. Your analysis should show how language users adapt and adopt global English for local cultural contexts and purposes; or how they engage in any of several multilingual competencies for writing and communication.
While people use language to get things done for specific purposes, they are also simultaneously creating and exchanging knowledge with each other about language. They use both their awareness of language (i.e., metalinguistic awareness) and their willingness to accommodate unfamiliar language uses (i.e., negotiating meaning) to their advantage. Their open attitude towards language connects them to transnational networks, makes new cultural forms of expression, and changes the character of English in the process, making it more flexible and accommodating as a global lingua franca.
Your task
Develop your Week 7 “Translingual Analysis Paper” into a larger 6-to-8 page analysis. You should aim to analyze additional examples from our case studies, provide more substantial commentary and discussion of what your analysis shows, and contextualize your analysis and connect it to our basic course concepts. You might also tie in a later case study or any insights from the Cal Poly-NCNU language symposium on March 3.
