{"product_id":"literacy-autobiographies-from-the-global-south-9781032265391","title":"Literacy Autobiographies from the Global South","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on autoethnographic research on literacy autobiographies from a Chinese EFL writing context, this book provides unique insights into literacy, voice, translingualism, and critical pedagogy from a Global South perspective. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book presents literacy autobiographies as a cultural tool for analyzing and refashioning learners' and teachers' sense of self in ever-expanding dialogical spaces. In addition to highlighting teachers' own stories around autoethnographies and translanguaging, it showcases literacy autobiographies from Chinese students themselves. The book theorizes the Global South as an ontological positioning that challenges colonial mindsets and practices concerning literacy, language learning, and narratives. It argues that literacy autobiographies from a Global South perspective can be reimagined as critical pedagogy for EFL writing teaching and learning, as well as teacher development.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eValidating and expanding student voices by presenting these litera\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Shizhou Yang has taken an innovative Global South perspective on literacy autobiographies with stories by himself as an EFL writing teacher as well as those by his students from China in diverse transnational contexts. The result is a fascinating and thought-provoking account that not only contributes to theoretical discussions of concepts such as critical pedagogy, translanguaging, and writing ecology, but also to pedagogical practices that will truly enable and empower the learners, and the teachers, to develop their own voices. As such, it is a major contribution to translingual and decolonising turn in language education research.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfessor Li Wei, Director \u0026amp; Dean, UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike his cicada after its long formation,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShizhou emerges with translingual poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBreaking free from the global and colonizing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePressures against his voice in literacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot alone, he emerges with his whole musical army—\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis students—with their own translingual story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut these cicadas won’t die too quickly;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir voices will transform the dominant pedagogy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuresh Canagarajah, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor, Pennsylvania State University \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a captivating book about the liberating intellectual journey of Shizhou Yang, who has found his voice and identity as a multilingual scholar through writing his own literacy autobiography. Also featuring the autobiographical writing of the author’s students situated in a marginalized context, the book celebrates the power of literacy autobiography as an undervalued genre in EFL contexts, demonstrating how it is intertwined with identity work, voice development, and knowledge creation. I highly recommend the book to everyone.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIcy Lee, Professor, Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Featuring literacy autobiography and poetic inquiry as methodology, this book has provided EFL teachers and students with a proven way to gain liberation from the shackles of modernism and neoliberalism. It is a must-read for anyone who is keen in search for Southern epistemologies in English language teaching.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eXiaoye You, Liberal Arts Professor of English and Asian Studies, Pennsylvania State University, USA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Shizhou Yang has taken an innovative Global South perspective on literacy autobiographies with stories by himself as an EFL writing teacher as well as those by his students from China in diverse transnational contexts. The result is a fascinating and thought-provoking account that not only contributes to theoretical discussions of concepts such as critical pedagogy, translanguaging, and writing ecology, but also to pedagogical practices that will truly enable and empower the learners, and the teachers, to develop their own voices. As such, it is a major contribution to translingual and decolonising turn in language education research.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfessor Li Wei, Director \u0026amp; Dean, UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike his cicada after its long formation,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShizhou emerges with translingual poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBreaking free from the global and colonizing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePressures against his voice in literacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot alone, he emerges with his whole musical army—\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis students—with their own translingual story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut these cicadas won’t die too quickly;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir voices will transform the dominant pedagogy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuresh Canagarajah, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor, Pennsylvania State University \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a captivating book about the liberating intellectual journey of Shizhou Yang, who has found his voice and identity as a multilingual scholar through writing his own literacy autobiography. Also featuring the autobiographical writing of the author’s students situated in a marginalized context, the book celebrates the power of literacy autobiography as an undervalued genre in EFL contexts, demonstrating how it is intertwined with identity work, voice development, and knowledge creation. I highly recommend the book to everyone.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIcy Lee, Professor, Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Featuring literacy autobiography and poetic inquiry as methodology, this book has provided EFL teachers and students with a proven way to gain liberation from the shackles of modernism and neoliberalism. It is a must-read for anyone who is keen in search for Southern epistemologies in English language teaching.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eXiaoye You, Liberal Arts Professor of English and Asian Studies, Pennsylvania State University, USA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 1 – A Teacher’s Stories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. An EFL Writing Teacher’s Poetic Autoethnography of Literacy Autobiography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. My Own Literacy Autobiography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 2 – Theory and Empirical Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Literacy Autobiographical Writing as Critical Pedagogy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Pedagogical Translanguaging Behind Literacy Autobiographical Writing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. The Emergence of Translingualism in an EFL Writer’s LA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Voice Construction Beyond Translingualism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 3 – Student’s Literacy Autobiographies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. My Literacy Rooted in Chinese Culture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. A Learning Cycle of Reading and Writing in English and Chinese\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. My Bilingual Journey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. A Literacy History of My Early Twenty Years\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. A Journey of Reading and Writing in Chinese and English\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12. My Footprints of Language Learning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13. A Way to Memorize: Reading and Writing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14. My Road on Acquisition of Reading and Writing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15. My Conquest of Language\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16. My Journey to Literacy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfterword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018934813015,"sku":"9781032265391","price":31.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032265391.jpg?v=1750778729","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/literacy-autobiographies-from-the-global-south-9781032265391","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}