Ruth Li
Volume 7
Chapter Description
In this chapter, I offer an approach to teaching literacy narratives, which encourage students to reflect critically on their diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. I interweave examples from literacy narratives written by three of my first-year writing students in Saudi Arabia. By examining the ways students’ stories reverberate across multicultural dimensions, I recontextualize Stewart’s essay “Weaving Personal Experience into Academic Writings” and Chaudhuri and Bhowmik’s “Literacy Autobiography” assignment for a global, multilingual context. I conclude by sharing guidance for writing a literacy narrative that examines the complex ways literacy becomes interwoven with identity.
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