Autoethnographies of Plurilingualism

Enrica Piccardo is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, Canada. Le Chen is a postdoctoral fellow at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, Canada.

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 - Selçuk Emre Ergüt 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 récit 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