Week 12 Response: Short And Not So Sweet

 

     I know it was just an opinion piece on Canagarajah, but I thought the authors should have explained their intentions with translingualism more thoroughly. The opinion article also seemed to be independent and that is another reason it should have explained itself better. The paper seemed to spend the first half of the article explaining why a translingual approach can be beneficial and the last part giving poor (and biased) examples that did not clarify anything. I'm still confused as to how a translingual approach to English should be implemented and what it would actually look like. They (pro-translingualists) had a lot of theory behind this and not much substance. Maybe my expectations for this type of approach are just too high? I was really thinking that all of these people who authored this paper would have more to say: Let the reader know how assignments will work and what topics will be covered and what exactly a translingual writing assignment will focus on. The paper suffices as a “mission statement” of sorts, but such academic theories and teaching styles need to be better explained if they want more people to buy into them.