“…And our third research question is: What evidence do we find of identity construction or the taking up and dropping of identities directly related to the use of language in this study? We are able to build on the many language and identity studies that have been completed in the last decades (Bucholtz, 1999;Lee, Hill-Bonnet, & Raley, 2011;Rampton, 1995Rampton, , 1997Rampton, , 1999Rampton, , 2006, and other researchers have written about advantageous bilingual discourse practices, including many who have written about translanguaging in recent years (Bialystok, 2013;Canagarajah, 2011;Garcia & Wei, 2013), but this study is the first internationally published work on migrant students' use of informal and formal Spanish and English in scholastic debates.…”