Reflections on Multiliterate Lives

Edited by Dr. Diane Belcher, Dr. Ulla Connor

Publication date:

12 February 2001

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

210x148mm
6x8"

ISBN-13: 9781853595226

"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.

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

This publication is rich in information and much can be learned from the stories. This work is highly recommended for anyone concerned with issues of second-language and education.