Translanguaging as extending beyond a view that EFL students have a unified repertoire made up of all their existing semiotic resources (multilingual and multimodal) and they employ it in a fluid way in social interaction in multilingual classrooms. This article aims at exploring a creative pedagogical Linguistic Landscape-based project through engaging EFL students to become ethnographic researchers in their local surroundings. Focusing on one of the creative classroom activities through making ‘mood board’ to demonstrate visual awareness of Linguistic Landscapes, this project constructs an EFL classroom as a collaborative translanguaging space that entails the teacher to engage all students in translanguaging practices through using their diverse multilingual and multimodal resources. The data were obtained through classroom ethnography observations and video-stimulated-recall-interview in an Indonesian University. Methodologically, this article applies Multimodal Conversation Analysis to analyze the classroom observation data and then triangulated with the video-stimulated-recall-interview data analyzed applying Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. The findings demonstrate how the participants recognize and mobilize the use of their various languages and multimodal practices to challenge the raciolinguistics and monolingual ideologies and facilitate their English learning as a decolonial resistance by incorporating their multilingual and multimodal resources as a unitary repertoire in the classroom. That is, the findings illuminate that translanguaging was driven by ideology and culture. What happened in this translanguaging space was a need to communicate in which the students make use of languages and cultures simultaneously or what the researcher calls ‘transcultural communication’.

Authors:
Harjuli Surya Putra, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Indonesia
Setiono Sugiharto, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Indonesia
Anna Marietta Da Silva, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Indonesia

About the Presenter(s)
Harjuli Surya Putra is currently a doctoral student in Applied English Linguistics in Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia. His recent project is related to linguistic landscape-based project to engage the students' translanguaging practices.

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