“Insufficiently Korean” to strategic meaning-maker: textual transpositioning and multilingual identity work

Abstract

Educational institutions continue to position multilingual capabilities as deficiencies requiring remediation rather than strategic resources deserving recognition and nurturing. Current translanguaging approaches focus primarily on spontaneous spoken interactions, leaving unexamined the sustained creative production through which multilingual writers develop strategic awareness of their complete linguistic repertoires. This paper introduces textual transpositioning as a framework for reconceptualising multilingual writing instruction. Drawing on a 6-month collaborative dialogue methodology, we examine how one multilingual author created Kimchi is for Everyone, a picturebook that orchestrate..