A cosmopolitan perspective on learning and teaching English

Abstract

Chapters 2-3 explore how different community members use English along with other symbolic resources to establish a cosmopolitan ethos and hybrid identities through online communities; Chapter 4 focuses on multilingual writers' transliterate creativity in the literature of globalization; the remaining chapters examine the CE pedagogy in university classrooms located in the United States and China.Fostering a cosmopolitan ethic, Sapphire mingles multiple languages and writing styles in her novel, such as street language of New York City and African American Vernacular English, to construct a working-class African American woman struggling to survive.The author analyzes the literacy challenges the students face in moving through scales in the literacy regimes and suggests strategies for making space for grassroots literacy: adjusting writing tasks, providing support for writing assignments, valuing students' multilingual resources, and connecting to local cultures.