Rebecca Lorimer Leonard
Biographic Data
| ID | 6750103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Lorimer Leonard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca Lorimer |
| FAMILY NAME | Leonard |
| SIGNATURE | LEONARD R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-6998-8546 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Genres Fall Apart
Transnational and multilingual writing data are characterized by mobile practices that rarely hold still for study. As individuals form and re-form communities in the process of migration, their language and literacy paths increasingly diversify forms of language sociality, goals, or expectations. In such cases, a priori community knowledge around genre use becomes tenuous or nonexistent. Yet, many default methodological orientations in Rhetorica…
Introduction to the special issue
Relationality in the Transfer of Writing Knowledge
Developed from a collaborative transdisciplinary analysis of transfer scholarship, we redefine transfer as a relational phenomenon to capture the “dynamic, emergent, embodied, messy” elements of writing transfer (Prior and Olinger 137). Relationality also highlights conceptual relationships in transfer research that produce seeming contradictions but are more often complementary than confounding
Teaching Driving Literacies in a Community Language School
This case study describes the dynamics of a literacy curriculum that was collaboratively designed at a community language school. The curriculum teaches participants how to get a driver’s license in Massachusetts, focusing on the English language literacies necessary for passing the written and road tests. This case study describes the curriculum’s context, framework, and goals, and then details how the curriculum was designed and experienced by …
Finding Complexity in Language Identity Surveys
This article reports on a cross-institutional, mixed-methods research study designed to gather data on first year writers’ language backgrounds at three North American universities. Researchers administered a language survey to 1,870 first year writing students and led follow-up focus groups with 32 participants. Researchers utilized three methods (descriptive statistical analysis, systematic qualitative analysis, and thematic qualitative analysi…
The social justice potential of critical reflection and critical language awareness pedagogies for L2 writers
Traveling Literacies
This essay explores the lived literacy experiences of four multilingual immigrant writers in the US, showing first, how they have moved their literacy practices among multiple languages andlocations in the world, and second, how these practices have been destabilized and redefined by the social contexts they have met along the way. Aiming to unsettle the assumed durability ofliteracy practices on the move, the essay argues that multilingual liter…
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Traveling Literacies
This essay explores the lived literacy experiences of four multilingual immigrant writers in the US, showing first, how they have moved their literacy practices among multiple languages andlocations in the world, and second, how these practices have been destabilized and redefined by the social contexts they have met along the way. Aiming to unsettle the assumed durability ofliteracy practices on the move, the essay argues that multilingual liter…
The social justice potential of critical reflection and critical language awareness pedagogies for L2 writers
Teaching Driving Literacies in a Community Language School
This case study describes the dynamics of a literacy curriculum that was collaboratively designed at a community language school. The curriculum teaches participants how to get a driver’s license in Massachusetts, focusing on the English language literacies necessary for passing the written and road tests. This case study describes the curriculum’s context, framework, and goals, and then details how the curriculum was designed and experienced by …
Finding Complexity in Language Identity Surveys
This article reports on a cross-institutional, mixed-methods research study designed to gather data on first year writers’ language backgrounds at three North American universities. Researchers administered a language survey to 1,870 first year writing students and led follow-up focus groups with 32 participants. Researchers utilized three methods (descriptive statistical analysis, systematic qualitative analysis, and thematic qualitative analysi…
Relationality in the Transfer of Writing Knowledge
Developed from a collaborative transdisciplinary analysis of transfer scholarship, we redefine transfer as a relational phenomenon to capture the “dynamic, emergent, embodied, messy” elements of writing transfer (Prior and Olinger 137). Relationality also highlights conceptual relationships in transfer research that produce seeming contradictions but are more often complementary than confounding
Introduction to the special issue
Genres Fall Apart
Transnational and multilingual writing data are characterized by mobile practices that rarely hold still for study. As individuals form and re-form communities in the process of migration, their language and literacy paths increasingly diversify forms of language sociality, goals, or expectations. In such cases, a priori community knowledge around genre use becomes tenuous or nonexistent. Yet, many default methodological orientations in Rhetorica…
Sociology (6 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (5 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Literacy (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social science (3 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (2 works)