Bahar Otcu-Grillman is an Associate Professor of TESOL/Bilingual Education in the Literacy and Multilingual Studies Department at Mercy College, New York, USA. She is the co-editor of Bilingual Community Education and Multilingualism: Beyond Heritage Languages in a Global City (with Ofelia García and Zeena Zakharia, 2013, Multilingual Matters).Maryam Borjian is an Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics in the Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA. She is the author of English in Post-Revolutionary Iran (2013, Multilingual Matters) and editor of Language and Globalization: An Autoethnographic Approach (2017, Routledge).

This book is both a richly deserved tribute to Ofelia García and a text that helps develop the fast-moving and increasingly popular concept of ‘translanguaging’, with contributions by many eminent scholars. A must-read for those many scholars and students who admire not only Ofelia’s writings but also her warm and empathic personality, it makes a major contribution to the study of translanguaging.

• ContributorsBernard Spolsky: Foreword: A Note on Ofelia GarcíaMaryam Borjian and Bahar Otcu-Grillman: Preface: The Genesis of this BookIntroductionMaryam Borjian: Part One: The Local Roots and Global Reach of Ofelia García’s MultilingualismBahar Otcu-Grillman: Part Two: A Tribute to Ofelia García: A Translanguaging ApproachPart 1: Remaking MultilingualismChapter 1. Nancy H. Hornberger: Imagining Multilingualism with Ofelia: Translanguaging and the Continua of BiliteracyChapter 2. Suresh Canagarajah: A Mentor from AfarChapter 3. Bahar Otcu-Grillman: Ofelia García’s Global ClassroomChapter 4. Lesley Bartlett: A Letter for Ofelia GarcíaPart 2: Bilingual Pedagogies and Teacher EducationChapter 5. Jo Anne Kleifgen: Emergent Bilinguals and Trans-Semiotic Practices in the New Media AgeChapter 6. Marianne Turner and Angel M.Y. Lin: Using ‘Transfeaturing’ to Explore Differentiation in the Pursuit of Translanguaging Pedagogical GoalsChapter 7. Anel V. Suriel and Mary E. Curran: Translanguaging in an Urban Social Justice Teacher Education ProgramChapter 8. Ivana Espinet and Karen Zaino: Where the Banyan Tree Grows: Nurturing Teachers’ Translanguaging Pedagogy through a Study GroupChapter 9. Carmina Makar: Bilingual Teachers Engage: Poetic Inquiry as a Site for Languaging DilemmasPart 3: Bilingual Community Education  Chapter 10. Li Wei and Zhu Hua: Parental Voices in Bilingual EducationChapter 11. Bahar Otcu-Grillman: Translanguaging in Bilingual Community EducationChapter 12. Fabrice Jaumont: Bilingual Education: Making a U-Turn with Parents and CommunitiesPart 4: Language Policy and Language IdeologiesChapter 13. Angela Creese and Adrian Blackledge: Translanguaging: An Ideological PerspectiveChapter 14. Maryam Borjian: Multiple Actors and Interactions are at Work: English Language Policies in Post-Revolutionary IranChapter 15. Sarah Hesson: Reimagining Language Policy through the Lived Realities of Bilingual YouthChapter 16. Sharon Avni: American Jewish Summer Camps as Translanguaging ThirdspacesPart 5: EpilogueJo Anne Kleifgen: Afterword: A Brief History of Work and Play with Ofelia GarcíaBahar Otcu-Grillman: Appendix: A List of Ofelia García’s Publications with Multilingual MattersIndex