Sociocultural and Power-Relational Dimensions of Multilingual Writing: Recommendations for Deindustrializing Writing Education

This book reports findings from an ethnographic study of the literate lives of three adult multilingual writers, conducted in order to describe how their socioculturally embedded literacy activities enriched their writing lives. The book argues that multilingual writers who can effectively write in English have complex literate, intellectual and cultural backgrounds that impact their writing practices. Dominant writing pedagogies don't often regard tapping into those layers as important pedagogical components in the process of teaching writing. The book highlights the significance of paying more attention to sociocultural and power relational layers of writing and provides recommendations for language teachers, educational policy makers and language and literacy researchers. The book brings together the fields of literacy research and second language writing and treats writing in both first and additional languages as part of a whole.