Literacy Autobiographies from the Global South

An Autoethnographic Study of English Literacy in China
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-26539-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 316 g

Reihe: Global South Perspectives on TESOL

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yang, Shizhou

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Alphabetisierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Shizhou Yang is a second language writer, writing teacher, and researcher in the English Communication Department at Payap University, Thailand.