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