Autoethnographies of Plurilingualism

List of Contributors

Introduction - Le Chen & Enrica Piccardo

Part 1: Reimagining plurilingual/pluricultural identities

Chapter 1: Adopting a Plurilingual Attitude: A Reimagining of Linguistic and Cultural Identity - Rebecca Schmor

Chapter 2: "Yet oddly enough, Arabic was my mother tongue": The (Re)Emergence of my Ethnolinguistic Roots - Karam Noel

Chapter 3: New Perspectives on Language Learning, Culture, and Identity: A Plurilingual Journey - Felicia Popplewell-Stanek

Chapter 4: A Journey to Self (Re-)discovery through a Plurilingual Lens - Ekaterina Prigaro

Chapter 5: Embracing a Plurilingual Life Trajectory as a Latina - Aracely Aguilera

Chapter 6: Where Do I Really Fit: A Journey to Self-Acceptance - Vivian Hoang

Chapter 7: All in a Name: Tracing Languages, Cultures, and Identities - Adriana Ortiz

Chapter 8: Finding Myself Plurilingually: A Tale of Two People - Mauran Manogaran

Chapter 9: Bypassing Bilingualism: My Journey from Monolingualism to Plurilingualism - Riah Werner

Part 2: Lessons from plurilingualism across time and space

Chapter 10: Me, Myself, and My Relationship with Languages: A Personal Narrative - Julia Manarin

Chapter 11: 'I No Longer Consider Myself Monolingual': A Plurilingual Ethnography Across Timescales - Michael Koslowski

Chapter 12: My Plurilingual Journey as a Learner and a Language Educator - Elena Danilina

Chapter 13: Affordances of Plurilingualism: Reflections of an English Teacher and Heritage Language Learner - Christopher Gradin

Chapter 14: It Starts Once Awakened: You May be Plurilingual Even If You are Monolingual - Selcuk Emre Erguet

Chapter 15: Creating a Linguistic Repertoire Through Space Instead of Time - Ashley Sikorski

Chapter 16: I Shush My Cat in Turkish: Unfinished Lessons from Plurilingualism - Sarah Jones

Chapter 17: Discovering My Multiple Plurilingual Identities - Lisa Lackner

Chapter 18: My Journey to Become a Plurilingual Adult - Lu Xi (Tracy)

Part 3: Plurilingualism as empowerment

Chapter 19: A Tujia Minority Student Developing from Monolingualism to Plurilingualism - Weiwei Huang

Chapter 20: My Autoethnography: A Joga Khichuri of Languages - S. M. Sanzana Rahman

Chapter 21: Du bilinguisme au multilinguisme au plurilinguisme : un recit personnel - Pierre Gregory (Translation: From Bilingualism to Multilingualism to Plurilingualism: An Autoethnography)

Chapter 22: My Story as an Awakening Chinese Plurilingual in China, Malaysia, and Canada - Vera Jing Huang

Chapter 23: Meeshaatang Huluniixsuwaakan: Language Learning Reflections from an Indigenous Perspective- Ian McCallum

Chapter 24: The Road Map: How Learning German Helps Relocate Myself - Zhiqi Zhang

Chapter 25: Building a Critical Disposition by Attending to Plurilingual Privileges - Jennifer Walsh Marr

Chapter 26: "Mi o Likey Snow!": My Journey from an Unaware Plurilingual Child to a Plurilingual Advocate - Aisha Bunmi Adebayo

Conclusion: Converging Voices: Reflections, Insights, and Horizons in Language Education - Enrica Piccardo and Le Chen

Afterword - Joseph Lo Bianco

Index