Potentials of Translingual Interviewing Using the Example of Educational Migration Research

This article uses a qualitative study as an example to demonstrate the potential of translingual interviewing. The concept of translanguaging, which began as a pedagogical programme in the course of multilingualism didactics, is more more broadly understood as a practice of multilingual speakers in general. This is to challenge the conventional separation of languages into separate and distinct entities and instead to emphasize the dynamism and fluidity of speakers’ linguistic repertoires ((Wei Appl Linugist 39:9, 2018)). Thus, if we understand translanguaging as an everyday and normal practice of multilingual speakers, interviews in qualitative migration research are also characterized by translanguaging. This article suggests creating a space for translanguaging in qualitative interviews so that multilingual interview partners can make full use of their linguistic repertoire.