Reflections on multiliterate lives / edited by Diane Belcher and Ulla Connor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Belcher, Diane Dewhurst, 1951-

Connor, Ulla, 1948-

Series:

Bilingual education and bilingualism ; 26.

Bilingual education and bilingualism ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multilingualism.

Literacy.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

vii, 211 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Clevedon, England ; Buffalo, N.Y. : Multilingual Matters, c2001.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Editors’ Introduction

The Fortunate Traveler: Shuttling between Communities and Literacies by Economy Class

Initiating into Academic Community: Some Autobiographical Reflections

Reminiscences of a Multilingual Life: A Personal Case History

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

Straddling Three Worlds

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

From L1 to L12: The Confessions of a Sometimes Frustrated Multiliterate

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

An Introspective Account of L2 Writing Acquisition

Writing from Chinese to English: My Cultural Transformation

Learning Is a Lifelong Process

Linguistic Experiences of a Mathematical Career

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

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

How Can I Help Make a Difference? An Interview with Robert Agunga

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

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

Appendix

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786610739257

9781280739255

1280739258

9781853597046

185359704X

OCLC:

1078915780