Reminiscences of a Multilingual Life: A Personal Case History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Editors’ Introduc 1
5. Part I: Language Specialists as Language Learners
6. The Fortunate Traveler: Shuttling between Communities and Literacies by Economy Class 23
7. Initiating into Academic Community: Some Autobiographical Reflections 38
8. Reminiscences of a Multilingual Life: A Personal Case History 51
9. Developing Literacy Can and Should Be Fun: But Only Sometimes Is 60
10. Straddling Three Worlds 67
11. How a Speaker of Two Second Languages Becomes a Writer in a Foreign Language 74
12. From L1 to L12: The Confessions of a Sometimes Frustrated Multiliterate 79
13. My Experience of Learning to Read and Write in Japanese as L1 and English as L2 96
14. An Introspective Account of L2 Writing Acquisition 110
15. Writing from Chinese to English: My Cultural Transformation 121
16. Part II: Crossing Cultures Across the Disciplines
17. Learning Is a Lifelong Process 135
18. Linguistic Experiences of a Mathematical Career 141
19. Taking the Best from a Number of Worlds: An Interview with Hooshang Hemami 150
20. Growing up Trilingual: Memories of an Armenian/Arabic/English Speaker 161
21. How Can I Help Make a Difference? An Interview with Robert Agunga 165
22. A Professional Academic Life in Two Languages: An Interview with María Juliá 177
23. On Being a Citizen of the World: An Interview with Luis Proenza 191
24. Appendix 209