Belcher / Connor Reflections on Multiliterate Lives

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-1-85359-704-6
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 26, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism

"Reflection on Multiliterate Lives" is a collection of personal accounts, in narrative and interview format, of the formative literacy experiences of highly successful second language users, all of who are professional academics. Representing fourteen countries in origin, the contributors, well-known specialists in language teaching as well as a variety of other fields in the social and physical sciences, recount in their own words past and present struggles and successes as learners of language and of much else.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Belcher, Diane

Connor, Ulla

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Diane Belcher and Ulla Connor: Editors’ Introduction

Part I: Language Specialists as Language Learners

Suresh Canagarajah: The Fortunate Traveler: Shuttling Between Communities and Literacies by Economy Class

Vijay K. Bhatia: Initiating into Academic Community: Some Autobiographical Reflections

Nils Erik Enkvist: Reminiscences of a Multilingual Life: A Personal Case History

Håkan Ringbom: Developing Literacy Can and Should Be Fun: But Only Sometimes Is

Anna Söter: Straddling Three Worlds

Adina Levine: How a Speaker of Two Second Languages Becomes a Writer in a Foreign Language

Andrew D. Cohen: From L1 to L12: The Confessions of a Sometimes Frustrated Multiliterate

Ryuko Kubota: My Experience of Learning to Read and Write in Japanese as L1 and English as L2

Miyuki Sasaki: An Introspective Account of L2 Writing Acquisition

Jun Liu: Writing from Chinese to English: My Cultural Transformation

Part II: Crossing Cultures Across the Disciplines

Ming-Daw Tsai: Learning is a Lifelong Process

Louis de Branges: Linguistic Experiences of a Mathematical Career

Hooshang Hemami and Diane Belcher: Taking the Best from a Number of Worlds: An Interview with Hooshang Hemami

Anahid Dervartanian Kulwicki: Growing up Trilingual: Memories of an Armenian/Arabic/English Speaker

Robert Agunga and Diane Belcher: How Can I Help Make a Difference? An Interview with Robert Agunga

María Juliá and Diane Belcher: A Professional Academic Life in Two Languages: An Interview with María Juliá

Luis Proenza and Ulla Connor: On Being a Citizen of the World: An Interview with Luis Proenza

Steven Beering and Ulla Connor: The Advantages of Starting Out Multilingual: An Interview with Steven Beering

Appendix: Guiding Questions