Comments on: The monolingual myth https://languageonthemove.com/the-monolingual-myth/ Multilingualism, Intercultural communication, Consumerism, Globalization, Gender & Identity, Migration & Social Justice, Language & Tourism Tue, 28 May 2019 06:31:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Metrolingualism: a nexus between language and space « Multilingual Australia https://languageonthemove.com/the-monolingual-myth/#comment-10135 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:59:02 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=2544#comment-10135 […] Pennycook writes about metrolingualism so much more eloquently than I in his post The Monolingual Myth at language on the […]

]]> By: Metroculturalism | Replicated Typo https://languageonthemove.com/the-monolingual-myth/#comment-6282 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:25:57 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=2544#comment-6282 […] publications aimed at trying to get people out of a mono-mindset.  Alastair Pennycook writes about Metrolingualism (see also, Otsuji & Pennycook, 2010) – the common use of many languages to construct […]

]]> By: Tyeisha https://languageonthemove.com/the-monolingual-myth/#comment-1992 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:12:46 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=2544#comment-1992 That was a long article. I enjoyed reading it, but it may have been over my head. So, please excuse my ignorance.

Like here in the U.S. lots of people speak Spanglish where they mix Spanish and English. It is usually frowned upon because people say you should only speak one language at a time, and mixing languages is not a good thing. Or they see it as meaning that you must be mixing two languages because your skill in either language is lacking.

So, does this article imply that mixing languages is normal?

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