Laura Hamman-Ortiz, a language and literacy researcher, discusses Translanguaging, an emerging instructional theory that challenges traditional understandings of bilingualism view the different languages used by a student as distinct skill sets. By contrast, translanguaging reframes bilingualism as a flexible linguistic activity that is intimately tied to contexts of use. According to Hamman-Ortiz, this has implications for classroom practice as well as for educators' understanding of how English language learners think.