1st Edition

Language and Culture Reflective Narratives and the Emergence of Identity

Edited By David Nunan, Julie Choi Copyright 2010
    248 Pages
    by Routledge

    246 Pages
    by Routledge

    This state-of-the-art exploration of language, culture, and identity is orchestrated through prominent scholars’ and teachers’ narratives, each weaving together three elements: a personal account based on one or more memorable or critical incidents that occurred in the course of learning or using a second or foreign language; an interpretation of the incidents highlighting their impact in terms of culture, identity, and language; the connections between the experiences and observations of the author and existing literature on language, culture and identity.

    What makes this book stand out is the way in which authors meld traditional ‘academic’ approaches to inquiry with their own personalized voices. This opens a window on different ways of viewing and doing research in Applied Linguistics and TESOL. What gives the book its power is the compelling nature of the narratives themselves. Telling stories is a fundamental way of representing and making sense of the human condition. These stories unpack, in an accessible but rigorous fashion, complex socio-cultural constructs of culture, identity, the self and other, and reflexivity, and offer a way into these constructs for teachers, teachers in preparation and neophyte researchers. Contributors from around the world give the book broad and international appeal.

     

    Foreword

    Bonny Norton

     

    Preface

    David Nunan & Julie Choi

     

    Acknowledgments

     

    1

    Language, culture and identity: Framing the issues

    David Nunan & Julie Choi

    2

    Coat hangers, cowboys, and communication strategies: Seeking an identity as a proficient foreign language learner

    Kathleen Bailey

    3

    Speaking Romance-esque

    David Block

    4

    空 Collaborating on community, sharing experience, troubling the symbolic

    Michael Brennan

    5

    Achieving community

    Suresh Canagarajah

    6

    Another drink in Subanun

    Mark Cherry

    7

    Nonghao, I am a Shanghai noenoe: How do I claim my Shanghaineseness?

    Alice Chik

    8

    Living on the hyphen

    Julie Choi

    9

    Negotiating multiple language identities

    Mary Ann Christison

    10

    Minna no Nihongo? Nai!

    Martha Clark Cummings

    11

    Elaborating the monolingual deficit

    Julian Edge

    12

    The foreign-ness of native speaking teachers of colour

    Eljee Javier

    13

    Otra estaciòn – a first Spanish lesson

    Rod Ellis

    14

    Bewitched: A microethnography of the culture of Majick in Old Salem

    Bud Goodall

    15

    Am I that name?

    Stacy Holman-Jones

    16

    English and me: My language learning journey

    Angel Lin

    17

    Adaptive cultural transformation: Quest for dual social identities

    Jun Liu

    18

    On this writing: An autotheoretic account

    Allen Luke

    19

    Changing cultures and identities in bicultural names: From parents to children

    Steve Marshall and Tim Mossman

    20

    The festival incident

    Michael McCarthy

    21

    Berlin Babylon

    Stephen Muecke

    22

    Changing stripes—chameleon or tiger?

    Denise Murray

    23

    Vanishing Acts

    Cynthia D. Nelson

    24

    Dog Rice and Cultural Dissonance

    David Nunan

    25

    ‘Where am I from’: Performative and metro perspectives of origin

    Emi Otsuji

    26

    Sweating cheese and thinking otherwise

    Alastair Pennycook

    27

    Multilingual couple talk

    Kimie Takahashi

    28

    Transforming identities in and through narrative

    Sumiko Taniguchi

    29

    A short course in Globalese

    Nury Vittachi

     

    Afterword

    Claire Kramsch

    Biography

    David Nunan is Vice President for Academic Affairs at Anaheim University, California, Emeritus Professor at the University of Hong Kong, Professor in Education at the University of NSW, and Senior Academic Advisor to Global English Corporation in San Francisco.

    Julia Choi is Teaching and Research Assistant in the Faculty of Education at the University of Technology, Sydney.