Il translanguaging per il successo accademico. Osservazioni su strategie monolingui e plurilingui degli studenti internazionali

The monolingual approach to education is responsible for the low level of multilingualism as a useful resource for learning. Competence in the language of instruction is the only one considered, and reinforcement actions are typically aimed at strengthening it. This report explores a possible alternative approach, inspired by translanguaging, which values multilingual practices as dynamic and flexible expressions of one’s entire communicative potential. An experience where multilingual students collaboratively carried out academic activities using only Italian rather than their repertoires will illustrate monolingual and multilingual strategies for access to comprehension and written production of study texts, and the lessons learned.