1st Edition

Decolonizing EFL Writing Education An L2 Writing Teacher's Poetic Autoethnography

By Shizhou Yang Copyright 2025
202 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

202 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

202 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Arguably the first book-length exploration of decolonizing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing education, this novel volume uses poetic autoethnography to provide a situated, dynamic, and complex view of multilingual writers through their second language (L2) academic writing and creative writing. Responding to contemporary calls to decolonize L2 writing as a field and... Read more

Part I Teacher’s Stories

1 A Poetic Disruption

2 Translanguaging the Self to Decolonize EFL Writing Education

3 Decolonizing EFL Writing Research

Part II Tales from Two EFL Writing Classrooms

4 Translanguaging Identity as a Decolonization Response

5 Multilingual Writers’ Lexical Resources: Decolonizing EFL Academic Writing Education

6 Synergizing EFL Freewriting and Translanguaging for Decolonization Purposes

7 Decolonizing Technologies in EFL Writing Education

Part III Tales from EFL Student Writers

8 English Fluency in Thailand: Experiencing Uncertainty between Identity and the Future

9 Nesting In-Between: A Distraught Account of Trying to Preserve My German Voice and Female Identity in Academic English

10 Crossing Cultures: An Autoethnography of an Edgewalker’s Identity

11 Becoming What I Thought Were Monsters: My Literacy Identity and Experience as a Bad Student to an English Teacher

12 The Voice Encroaching Me About English Writing: “I Think I’m Not Good Enough”

13 THE SOUTH

14 Earth … Moon or Sun?

15 The Goodbye Secret

16 I Am Different

17 A Watermelon Thief

Biography

Shizhou Yang is Assistant Professor, Department of English Communications at Payap University, Thailand.