New Book

New book: Reconceptualizing the Writing Practices of Multilingual Youth: Towards a Symbiotic Approach to In- and Out-of-School Writing 

I just published my new book, Reconceptualizing the Writing Practices of Multilingual Youth: Towards a Symbiotic Approach to In- and Out-of-School Writing (2021, Routledge). The book focuses on adolescent multilingual writing, and problematizes the traditional boundaries between academic writing in school contexts and self-initiated writing outside of the formal learning environment. By reconceptualizing the nature of adolescent multilingual writing, I try to establish it as an interdisciplinary genre and a key area of inquiry for research and pedagogy.

New Book: Multimodal Composing in K-16 ESL and EFL Education Multilingual Perspectives

I just published a co-edited book, Multimodal Composing in K-16 ESL and EFL Education: Multilingual Perspectives. 

The book addresses issues concerning multilinguals’ multimodal composing and reflects on what the nexus of multimodality, writing development, and multilingual education entails for future research. It provides research-driven and practice-oriented perspectives of multilinguals’ multimodal composing, drawing on empirical data from classroom contexts to elucidate aspects of multimodal composing from a range of theoretical perspectives such as multiliteracies, systemic functional linguistics, and social semiotics.