This presentation discusses the approach “Focus on multilingualism” that looks at students as multilingual speakers who can use resources from their multilingual repertoire in the social context. Within this framework, the concept of translanguaging will be discussed as related to spontaneous communicative practices among speakers or to planned instructional strategies used with a pedagogical purpose.

Jasone Cenoz is Professor of Research Methods in Education at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU and President of the Education Science Committee of the Spanish Research Council (AEI). Her research focuses on multilingual education, bilingualism and multilingualism. She has published extensively and has presented her work at conferences and seminars in the US, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, India, Brunei, New Zealand Singapore and most European countries.

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