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This chapter is based on a research conducted in a PhD (Ethpatiyawe Gedara, 2022) to identify and study translanguaging and transculturing effects in the Sri Lankan context. Sri Lanka is a mutilingual and a multicultural country in its historical aspects. Yet, we study the plurilingual and pluricultural Sri Lankan context where language education brings out some phenomenal challenges. The term translanguaging here means that interlocutors can move from one language to another with the help of their understanding in one and their expression in another. Transculturing is a more recent term, and concerns the transcultural behavior of individuals. This research focuses on the transcultural behavior of Sri Lankans that would explain translanguage productions. Most Sri Lankan students who are plurilingual (Sinhala, Tamil: official languages; English) encounter difficulties during their additional language courses. The knowledge of the languages already learned is activated during their additional language learning process. We believe that this happens because of their contact with different languages and cultures. In the Sri Lankan context, the translanguage and transcultural experience of the students is either ignored or seen as an obstacle by the teachers. We therefore see the importance of studying this problem in order to propose an appropriate pedagogy. The methodology is based on a multimodal approach involving focus group discussions followed by self-confrontation interviews with students from two Sri Lankan universities and binational couples. One hypothesis is that the more or less unconsciously occurring transcultural behaviors explain the translanguage productions. The analysis of the data leads to results that confirm in particular the low degree of awareness of each individual with regard to their behaviors. The different studies thus confirm the hypothesis that transculturing triggers translanguaging and that it leads to the awareness and reinforcement of initial behaviors if they are perceived as relevant and beneficial.

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The Effects of Transcultural Behaviors (Transculturing) and Translanguage Production (Translanguaging): An Exploratory Study with Sri Lankans

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    2025年

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  • Claire Chaplier,
  • Ethpatiyawe Gedara Indiwaree Poornima Wickramasinghe

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This chapter is based on a research conducted in a PhD (Ethpatiyawe Gedara, 2022) to identify and study translanguaging and transculturing effects in the Sri Lankan context. Sri Lanka is a mutilingual and a multicultural country in its historical aspects. Yet, we study the plurilingual and pluricultural Sri Lankan context where language education brings out some phenomenal challenges. The term translanguaging here means that interlocutors can move from one language to another with the help of their understanding in one and their expression in another. Transculturing is a more recent term, and concerns the transcultural behavior of individuals. This research focuses on the transcultural behavior of Sri Lankans that would explain translanguage productions. Most Sri Lankan students who are plurilingual (Sinhala, Tamil: official languages; English) encounter difficulties during their additional language courses. The knowledge of the languages already learned is activated during their additional language learning process. We believe that this happens because of their contact with different languages and cultures. In the Sri Lankan context, the translanguage and transcultural experience of the students is either ignored or seen as an obstacle by the teachers. We therefore see the importance of studying this problem in order to propose an appropriate pedagogy. The methodology is based on a multimodal approach involving focus group discussions followed by self-confrontation interviews with students from two Sri Lankan universities and binational couples. One hypothesis is that the more or less unconsciously occurring transcultural behaviors explain the translanguage productions. The analysis of the data leads to results that confirm in particular the low degree of awareness of each individual with regard to their behaviors. The different studies thus confirm the hypothesis that transculturing triggers translanguaging and that it leads to the awareness and reinforcement of initial behaviors if they are perceived as relevant and beneficial.