Prof. Angel M. Y. Lin, Chair Professor of Language, Literacy, and Social Semiotics in Education, The Education University of Hong Kong Prof. Angel Angel M. Y. Lin is a a leading scholar in the fields of English language education and critical literacies. In this interview, she shares her insight with Mobina Sahraee Juybari on the evolution of her research journey, the urgent challenges and opportunities in the field of language and literacy education, and the need for human

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