Full Description
Drawing on autoethnographic research on literacy autobiographies from a Chinese EFL writing context, this book provides unique insights into literacy, voice, translingualism, and critical pedagogy from a Global South perspective.
The book presents literacy autobiographies as a cultural tool for analyzing and refashioning learners' and teachers' sense of self in ever-expanding dialogical spaces. In addition to highlighting teachers' own stories around autoethnographies and translanguaging, it showcases literacy autobiographies from Chinese students themselves. The book theorizes the Global South as an ontological positioning that challenges colonial mindsets and practices concerning literacy, language learning, and narratives. It argues that literacy autobiographies from a Global South perspective can be reimagined as critical pedagogy for EFL writing teaching and learning, as well as teacher development.
Validating and expanding student voices by presenting these literacy autobiographies, this book will be of great interest to researchers and students in the fields of TESOL, applied linguistics, English language teaching, second language writing, and literacy studies.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
Part 1 - A Teacher's Stories
1. An EFL Writing Teacher's Poetic Autoethnography of Literacy Autobiography
2. My Own Literacy Autobiography
Part 2 - Theory and Empirical Studies
3. Literacy Autobiographical Writing as Critical Pedagogy
4. Pedagogical Translanguaging Behind Literacy Autobiographical Writing
5. The Emergence of Translingualism in an EFL Writer's LA
6. Voice Construction Beyond Translingualism
Part 3 - Student's Literacy Autobiographies
7. My Literacy Rooted in Chinese Culture
8. A Learning Cycle of Reading and Writing in English and Chinese
9. My Bilingual Journey
10. A Literacy History of My Early Twenty Years
11. A Journey of Reading and Writing in Chinese and English
12. My Footprints of Language Learning
13. A Way to Memorize: Reading and Writing
14. My Road on Acquisition of Reading and Writing
15. My Conquest of Language
16. My Journey to Literacy
Afterword
Index
