Narratives of East Asian Women Teachers of English : : Where Privilege Meets Marginalization / / Gloria Park.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Park, Gloria,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This book is a powerful narrative of how six women experienced their lives alongside their desire to overcome the challenging and empowering nature of the English language. The volume shares who they are as transnational and mobile women living in the midst of linguistic privilege and marginalization. It is one outcome of a research project and the lived experiences which surround and influence (and were influenced by) it. The author documents how she and her research partners began studying what had drawn them to US TESOL programs, and how English was and is a symbol of power and privilege, a symbol of educational access and a pursuit of equity, yet, at times, is also a symbol of linguistic marginalization.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue: (Re)Making the Book: Where Privilege and Marginalization Began -- 1. Rendering My Autobiographical Poetic Inquiry -- 2. Exposing our Discourses of Privilege and Marginalization: Gender, Race and Class Connections to Teaching English -- 3. 'Writing is a Way of Knowing' in Promoting Evocative-Genres of Inquiry: Methodological Choices -- 4. Where Privilege Meets Marginalization in Han Nah's Lived Experiences: Navigating her Multiple Gendered Identities -- 5. Where Privilege Meets Marginalization in the Narratives of Liu, Xia and Yu Ri: Exploring Their Linguistic and Teacher Identities -- 6. Epilogue: Juxtaposing My Autobiographical Critical Incidents with Meanings gleaned from the Women's Narratives: Where Privilege Meets Marginalization -- Appendix A: Guidelines for Electronic Reflective Autobiographical Narratives -- Appendix B: Guidelines for Electronically Journaling Educational Incidents -- Appendix C: Interview Questions -- References -- Index