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Living English, moving literacies : women's stories of learning between the US and Nepal / Katie Silvester.
Van Pelt Library PE1130.I845 S55 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Silvester, Katie, author.
- Series:
- Studies in writing & rhetoric
- CCCC studies in writing and rhetoric (SWR)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.
- English language.
- Bhutanese people--United States.
- Bhutanese people.
- Women immigrants--Education--United States.
- Women immigrants.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 153 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Champaign, Illinois : National Council of Teachers of English, [2024]
- Summary:
- This book demonstrates how researchers and practitioners in writing and rhetoric studies can engage in story work across differences in culture, language, locations, and experience. Based on an ethnographic study in Nepal spanning a decade, the author speaks with and to the stories of Bhutanese women in diaspora learning English later in life during resettlement and in the context of waves of social change brought on by the end of their asylum.
- Contents:
- Pt I. Speaking with/to : "Living-English" stories
- pt. II. Learning to learn : situating stories across languages, locations, and time.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0814101704
- 9780814101704
- OCLC:
- 1407211178
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