Aim/Purpose: This narrative inquiry study uses a strength-based approach to the cross-cultural socialization journey of Chinese international doctoral students at U.S. Land Grant university. Historically, we thought as an institutional or group-defined process, but “journey” taps into rich tradition about individuals, how they relate others, and identities that carry develop. Background: To dat...

Today’s classrooms are linguistically diverse. Nonetheless, English language teaching still uses a separatist model in which other languages and identities reduced subalternized. This evident separation of has forced many speakers to identify with the non-native label, prevented them from using linguistic resources they have previously acquired communicate learn given settings, made different w...

Using narrative inquiry, this study investigates an ESL teacher’s experience of professional development, her perspectives its effectiveness, the challenges encountered, and changes in teacher knowledge teaching practices. The focus is on how participant perceives problems development can best address teachers’ needs educating ELLs. found to impede teachers from gaining most include: (a) failur...

Higher education is in flux with more precarity, a stronger focus on effectiveness, and productivity having resulted competitive hostile culture. For this article, we take proactive approach to counteract the narrative of silencing by exploring opportunities collaboration may afford. Drawing our personal experiences, professional knowledge, research, engaged collaborative form poetic inquiry. O...