Journal article
“Multilingualizing” Composition: A Diary Self-Study of Learning Spanish and Chinese
Composition studies, Vol.45(2), pp.12-31
09/22/2017
Abstract
Using her own experiences of keeping a journal while learning advanced Spanish creative writing and beginning Chinese during the same semester, the author illustrates that composition teachers’ second language learning experiences—intimate and challenging encounters with a second language that multilingual composition students experience every day—can develop the cross-language and cross-cultural knowledge as well as the humility and empathy necessary both to “multilingualize” not only one’s teaching, but the field of composition as a whole. She shows how teachers’ second language learning studies might supplement or replace some of the translingual writing literature that often naively duplicates and redundantly reinvents or rediscovers the longstanding, research-based, sociolinguistic and multilingual perspectives on language from applied linguistics, second language acquisition, and second language writing.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- “Multilingualizing” Composition: A Diary Self-Study of Learning Spanish and Chinese
- Creators
- Carol Severino
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Composition studies, Vol.45(2), pp.12-31
- ISSN
- 1534-9322
- eISSN
- 2832-0093
- Publisher
- Parlor Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/22/2017
- Academic Unit
- International Programs; Rhetoric
- Record Identifier
- 9984398396602771
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