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