International Students' Multilingual Literacy Practices: An Asset-based Approach to Understanding Academic Discourse Socialization

This book presents the results of research that focused on international students receiving writing instruction on a US university campus. It explores how the students developed their foreign-student identities and their own ways of grappling with the unique issues they encountered as they worked to improve their academic literacy skills. The book extends the theoretical horizons of language socialization research by integrating insights from other disciplinary frameworks, such as a translingual approach, multilingual literacies and writing center theory, to explore international students’ university experiences. By adopting these varied lenses, the book provides readers with a more holistic, integrative and ecological understanding of students’ language and literacy development. The authors also investigate how a translingual pedagogy informs language instructors and literacy instructors in facilitating multilingual students’ academic literacy development across a variety of codes, registers, genres, modes and media.

Peter I. De Costa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures, Michigan State University, USA.  His primary research includes the role of identity and ideology in SLA. He is co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Applied Linguistics Research (Palgrave, 2018) and he is the current co-editor of TESOL Quarterly.

Wendy Li is an Assistant Professor in the ​Faculty of International Studies at Nagoya University of Commerce & Business, Japan. Her research interests include second language socialization, and second language identity and ideology.

Jongbong Lee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Nagoya University of Commerce & Business in Japan. His research interests include second language acquisition and second language writing.