Have you ever secretly thought that people invent a term so it sounds like something new and exciting, but it’s actually no different to an existing term? Terminological confusion happens a lot when ideas become popular and people embrace them in different ways.  But I’d like to argue for a term that has been accused of this: translanguaging . The term that already exists? Code-switching .   We have had the idea of code-switching - switching between ‘codes’ or languages - for

This website is one output of a joint project between Queensland University of Technology and The Queensland Department of Education. The project was funded through the Department of Education Horizon Scheme and has come to be known as the Home Languages in Schools project.

Navigating language use in the classroom can be challenging.