This collection spotlights the authentic voices of plurilingual learners, bringing together autoethnographies of over twenty graduate students to deepen current understandings of lived experiences of plurilingualism. The volume begins with outlining foundational work on plurilingualism in language education up to this point, with the body of work on plurilingual subjectivities historically focusing on researchers’ and practitioners’ gazes, rather than students. The book moves into short autoethnographies of graduate students at the University of Toronto enrolled in a graduate education course over three years. Employing autoethnography as the primary methodology allows the space for privileging authentic voices of plurilingual learners in their own words, learners whose individual lived experiences are uniquely contextualized within the lens of plurilingual theory. The volume and diversity of perspectives showcased offer a unique window into the diversity and commonalities among plurilingual learners, offering opportunities for reflection on directions for future research. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in applied linguistics, language teaching and learning, and language education.
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This collection spotlights the authentic voices of plurilingual learners, bringing together autoethnographies of over twenty graduate students toward deepening current understandings of lived experiences of plurilingualism.
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List of Contributors Introduction - Le Chen & Enrica PiccardoPart 1: Reimagining plurilingual/pluricultural identitiesChapter 1: Adopting a Plurilingual Attitude: A Reimagining of Linguistic and Cultural Identity - Rebecca SchmorChapter 2: “Yet oddly enough, Arabic was my mother tongue”: The (Re)Emergence of my Ethnolinguistic Roots - Karam NoelChapter 3: New Perspectives on Language Learning, Culture, and Identity: A Plurilingual Journey - Felicia Popplewell-StanekChapter 4: A Journey to Self (Re-)discovery through a Plurilingual Lens - Ekaterina PrigaroChapter 5: Embracing a Plurilingual Life Trajectory as a Latina - Aracely AguileraChapter 6: Where Do I Really Fit: A Journey to Self-Acceptance - Vivian HoangChapter 7: All in a Name: Tracing Languages, Cultures, and Identities - Adriana OrtizChapter 8: Finding Myself Plurilingually: A Tale of Two People - Mauran ManogaranChapter 9: Bypassing Bilingualism: My Journey from Monolingualism to Plurilingualism - Riah WernerPart 2: Lessons from plurilingualism across time and spaceChapter 10: Me, Myself, and My Relationship with Languages: A Personal Narrative - Julia ManarinChapter 11: ‘I No Longer Consider Myself Monolingual’: A Plurilingual Ethnography Across Timescales - Michael KoslowskiChapter 12: My Plurilingual Journey as a Learner and a Language Educator - Elena DanilinaChapter 13: Affordances of Plurilingualism: Reflections of an English Teacher and Heritage Language Learner - Christopher GradinChapter 14: It Starts Once Awakened: You May be Plurilingual Even If You are Monolingual - Selçuk Emre ErgütChapter 15: Creating a Linguistic Repertoire Through Space Instead of Time - Ashley SikorskiChapter 16: I Shush My Cat in Turkish: Unfinished Lessons from Plurilingualism - Sarah JonesChapter 17: Discovering My Multiple Plurilingual Identities - Lisa LacknerChapter 18: My Journey to Become a Plurilingual Adult - Lu Xi (Tracy)Part 3: Plurilingualism as empowermentChapter 19: A Tujia Minority Student Developing from Monolingualism to Plurilingualism - Weiwei HuangChapter 20: My Autoethnography: A Joga Khichuri of Languages - S. M. Sanzana RahmanChapter 21: Du bilinguisme au multilinguisme au plurilinguisme : un récit personnel - Pierre Gregory (Translation: From Bilingualism to Multilingualism to Plurilingualism: An Autoethnography)Chapter 22: My Story as an Awakening Chinese Plurilingual in China, Malaysia, and Canada - Vera Jing HuangChapter 23: Meeshaatang Huluniixsuwaakan: Language Learning Reflections from an Indigenous Perspective- Ian McCallumChapter 24: The Road Map: How Learning German Helps Relocate Myself - Zhiqi ZhangChapter 25: Building a Critical Disposition by Attending to Plurilingual Privileges - Jennifer Walsh MarrChapter 26: “Mi o Likey Snow!”: My Journey from an Unaware Plurilingual Child to a Plurilingual Advocate - Aisha Bunmi AdebayoConclusion: Converging Voices: Reflections, Insights, and Horizons in Language Education - Enrica Piccardo and Le ChenAfterword - Joseph Lo BiancoIndex
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ISBN
9781032585352
Publisert
2024-09-30
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Routledge
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671 gr
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229 mm
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152 mm
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U, 05
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Engelsk
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262

Om bidragsyterne

Enrica Piccardo is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Le Chen is a postdoctoral fellow at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, Canada.