Decolonizing EFL Writing Education

Shizhou Yang

Decolonizing EFL Writing Education
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
15 January 2025
Pages
216
ISBN
9781032879581

Decolonizing EFL Writing Education

Shizhou Yang

Arguably the first book-length exploration of decolonizing EFL writing education, this novel volume uses poetic autoethnography to provide a situated, dynamic, and complex view of multilingual writers through their L2 academic writing and creative writing.

Responding to contemporary calls to decolonize L2 writing as a field and diversify academic writing for multilingual students, this book is first of its kind to explore the decolonization of EFL writing education from a Global Southern context. Chapters critically and creatively consider issues of educational technologies, translanguaging, academic writing, epistemology, and pedagogy from two writing courses from a Global South and classroom writing ecology perspective. Using poetic autoethnography alongside data from authentic writing classrooms in Thailand, the book posits that emergent translanguaging literature can be cultivated for decolonization purposes, critiquing and providing decolonial options in such areas as monolingual ideology, freewriting, student identity and mind.

Empowering EFL writing teachers to raise students' critical awareness of issues such as writing, culture, and coloniality, this book will be of key interest to researchers, scholars, and postgraduate students in the fields of applied linguistics, TESOL, Second language (L2) writing, multilingual education, and language policy and planning.

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