It is my pleasure to introduce to you the guest editor of this third Special Issue of L2 Journal on L2 Writing and Personal History: Meaningful Literacy in the Language Classroom.
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Introduction to the Special Issue
The premise of this publication and collective exploration is that through literacy, and in particular L2 writing, personal phenomenological experience can be reflectively inspected, explicated and presented for interpretation by others and as such can be used as an important resource within the language classroom…
My Autobiographical-Poetic Rendition: An Inquiry into Humanizing our Teacher Scholarship
In this paper, I highlight four distinct but interconnected areas of my life history that I refer to as autobiographic poetic waves. These waves are layered with the complex underpinning of racial, linguistic, gendered, classed, and professional identity politics…
ESL Teachers/ESL Students: Looking at Autoethnography through the Lens of Personetics
This qualitative, naturalistic study examines thoughts expressed in autoethnographies and accompanying notes written by ESL teachers/learners who are enrolled in a graduate teacher education program in the US. These data are then juxtaposed with the Freirean idea that English learners can be empowered if they analyze their personal paths critically…
Meaningful Writing in the Heritage Language Class: A Case Study of Heritage Learners of Spanish in Canada
This article reports on a classroom-based experience that draws from the critical approach to heritage Spanish language teaching and Hanauer’s concept of meaningful writing…
Emotionality and Second Language Writers: Expressing Fear through Narrative in Thai and in English
Writing to express emotions can be a challenging task for second language (L2) writers, especially because it tends to be a process that is less addressed in language classrooms. This paper aims to expand thinking on L2 literacy and writing by exploring how L2 writers can express emotion (fear) through narratives…
Researching Chinese History and Culture through Poetry Writing in an EFL Composition Class
This article describes a pedagogical project designed to optimize opportunities for individual, creative expression in L2 academic writing…