Afterword – No Quiero Que Me Le Vayan A Hacer Burla: Issues to Ponder and Consider in the Context of Translanguaging

One of the special joys of being a senior scholar is that one is occasionally invited to write the Afterword for volumes such as these, volumes that push, change and raise questions and directly interrogate established policies and practices. It is a special pleasure to be invited to write such pieces for a number of reasons. First, these invitations bring with them an opportunity to read and learn from young scholars who are working ‘at the edge of the field.’ Second, they also push us to remember what we learned, to examine what we got wrong, or maybe almost right,