This state-of-the-art exploration of language, culture, and identity is orchestrated through prominent scholars’ and teachers’ narratives, each weaving together three elements: a personal account based on one or more memorable or critical incidents that occurred in the course of learning or using a second or foreign language; an interpretation of the incidents highlighting their impact in terms of culture, identity, and language; the connections between the experiences and observations of the author and existing literature on language, culture and identity.
What makes this book stand out is the way in which authors meld traditional ‘academic’ approaches to inquiry with their own personalized voices. This opens a window on different ways of viewing and doing research in Applied Linguistics and TESOL. What gives the book its power is the compelling nature of the narratives themselves. Telling stories is a fundamental way of representing and making sense of the human condition. These stories unpack, in an accessible but rigorous fashion, complex socio-cultural constructs of culture, identity, the self and other, and reflexivity, and offer a way into these constructs for teachers, teachers in preparation and neophyte researchers. Contributors from around the world give the book broad and international appeal.
Contents
Foreword
Bonny Norton
Preface
David Nunan & Julie Choi
Acknowledgments
1
Language, culture and identity: Framing the issues
David Nunan & Julie Choi
2
Coat hangers, cowboys, and communication strategies: Seeking an identity as a proficient foreign language learner
Kathleen Bailey
3
Speaking Romance-esque
David Block
4
蝛 Collaborating on community, sharing experience, troubling the symbolic
Michael Brennan
5
Achieving community
Suresh Canagarajah
6
Another drink in Subanun
Markbr>
7
Nonghao, I am a Shanghai noenoe: How do I claim my Shanghaineseness?
Alice Chik
8
Living on the hyphen
Julie Choi
9
Negotiating multiple language identities
Mary Ann Christison
10
Minna no Nihongo? Nai!
Martha Clark Cummings
11
Elaborating the monolingual deficit
Julian Edge
12
The foreign-ness of native speaking teachers of colour
Eljee Javier
13
Otra estaciòn – a first Spanish lesson
Rod Ellis
14
Bewitched: A microethnography of the culture of Majick in Old Salem
Bud Goodall
15
Am I that name?
Stacy Holman-Jones
16
English and me: My language learning journey
Angel Lin
17
Adaptive cultural transformation: Quest for dual social identities
Jun Liu
18
On this writing: An autotheoretic account
Allen Luke
19
Changing cultures ...
