This collection spotlights the authentic voices of plurilingual learners, bringing together autoethnographies of over twenty graduate students toward deepening current understandings of lived experiences of plurilingualism.

Enrica Piccardo is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Le Chen is a postdoctoral fellow at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, Canada.

List of Contributors

Introduction - Le Chen & Enrica Piccardo

Part 1: Reimagining plurilingual/pluricultural identities

Chapter 1: Adopting a Plurilingual Attitude: A Reimagining of Linguistic and Cultural Identity - Rebecca Schmor

Chapter 2: "Yet oddly enough, Arabic was my mother tongue": The (Re)Emergence of my Ethnolinguistic Roots - Karam Noel

Chapter 3: New Perspectives on Language Learning, Culture, and Identity: A Plurilingual Journey - Felicia Popplewell-Stanek

Chapter 4: A Journey to Self (Re-)discovery through a Plurilingual Lens - Ekaterina Prigaro

Chapter 5: Embracing a Plurilingual Life Trajectory as a Latina - Aracely Aguilera

Chapter 6: Where Do I Really Fit: A Journey to Self-Acceptance - Vivian Hoang

Chapter 7: All in a Name: Tracing Languages, Cultures, and Identities - Adriana Ortiz

Chapter 8: Finding Myself Plurilingually: A Tale of Two People - Mauran Manogaran

Chapter 9: Bypassing Bilingualism: My Journey from Monolingualism to Plurilingualism - Riah Werner

Part 2: Lessons from plurilingualism across time and space

Chapter 10: Me, Myself, and My Relationship with Languages: A Personal Narrative - Julia Manarin

Chapter 11: 'I No Longer Consider Myself Monolingual': A Plurilingual Ethnography Across Timescales - Michael Koslowski

Chapter 12: My Plurilingual Journey as a Learner and a Language Educator - Elena Danilina

Chapter 13: Affordances of Plurilingualism: Reflections of an English Teacher and Heritage Language Learner - Christopher Gradin

Chapter 14: It Starts Once Awakened: You May be Plurilingual Even If You are Monolingual - Selçuk Emre Ergüt

Chapter 15: Creating a Linguistic Repertoire Through Space Instead of Time - Ashley Sikorski

Chapter 16: I Shush My Cat in Turkish: Unfinished Lessons from Plurilingualism - Sarah Jones

Chapter 17: Discovering My Multiple Plurilingual Identities - Lisa Lackner

Chapter 18: My Journey to Become a Plurilingual Adult - Lu Xi (Tracy)

Part 3: Plurilingualism as empowerment

Chapter 19: A Tujia Minority Student Developing from Monolingualism to Plurilingualism - Weiwei Huang

Chapter 20: My Autoethnography: A Joga Khichuri of Languages - S. M. Sanzana Rahman

Chapter 21: Du bilinguisme au multilinguisme au plurilinguisme : un récit personnel - Pierre Gregory (Translation: From Bilingualism to Multilingualism to Plurilingualism: An Autoethnography)

Chapter 22: My Story as an Awakening Chinese Plurilingual in China, Malaysia, and Canada - Vera Jing Huang

Chapter 23: Meeshaatang Huluniixsuwaakan: Language Learning Reflections from an Indigenous Perspective- Ian McCallum

Chapter 24: The Road Map: How Learning German Helps Relocate Myself - Zhiqi Zhang

Chapter 25: Building a Critical Disposition by Attending to Plurilingual Privileges - Jennifer Walsh Marr

Chapter 26: "Mi o Likey Snow!": My Journey from an Unaware Plurilingual Child to a Plurilingual Advocate - Aisha Bunmi Adebayo

Conclusion: Converging Voices: Reflections, Insights, and Horizons in Language Education - Enrica Piccardo and Le Chen

Afterword - Joseph Lo Bianco

Index