Eric K. Ku

Selected work

Monograph

Ku, E. K. (2023). Teachers of multiple languages: Identities, beliefs and emotions. Multilingual Matters. https://doi.org/10.21832/9781800414532

Journal Articles (Peer-Reviewed)

Ku, E. K. (2025). Timelines: Visualizing time in narrative research. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 4(2). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmal.2025.100215

Ku, E. K., Furukawa, G., & Hiramoto, M. (2021). “EFL + α”: Attitudes towards English use in Japan around necessity, value, and ability. International Journal of TESOL Studies, 3(3), 153-168. https://doi.org/10.46451/ijts.2021.10.06

Ku, E. K. (2020). “Waiting for my red envelope”: Discourses of sameness in the linguistic landscape of a marriage equality demonstration in Taiwan. Critical Discourse Studies, 17(2), 156-174. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2019.1656655

Ku, E. K. (2019). “Can we do a not-all-in-English drama for kids?”: Translingual practices in an EFL play. English Teaching & Learning, 43(1), 5-22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42321-018-0012-6

Book Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

Hiramoto, M., Furukawa, G., & Ku, E. K. (2025). Gender and sexuality. In The encyclopedia of applied linguistics (2nd Edition). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal20298

Ku, E. K. (2024). LGB EFL teachers in Taiwan: LGBTQ+ sensemaking in the workplace. In E. Trinh. K. M. Reynolds, & J. Coda (Eds.), Teaching pride forward: Building LGBTQ+ allyship in English language teaching. TESOL Press.

Ku, E. K. (2024). Exploring identities and emotions of a teacher of multiple languages: An arts-based

narrative inquiry using clay work. In S. Melo-Pfeifer & V. Tavares (Eds.), Language teacher identity: Confronting ideologies of language, race, and ethnicity (pp. 45-62). Wiley-Blackwell.

Ku, E. K. (2023). “Waiting for my red envelope”: Discourses of sameness in the linguistic landscape of a marriage equality demonstration in Taiwan. In L. L. Paterson & G. Turner (Eds.), Approaches to Discourses of Marriage (pp. 52-70). Routledge.

Ku, E. K., & Liu, Y-T. (2021). Integrating language teacher identity into competency-based language teacher education. In A. Y. Wang (Ed.), Competency-based teacher education for English as a foreign language: Theory, research and practice (pp. 39-56). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003212805

Ku, E. K. (2020). Dear Eric: An autoethnodrama of exploring professional legitimacy as a transnational EFL instructor. In B. Yazan, S. Canagarajah, & R. Jain (Eds.), Autoethnographies in ELT: Transnational identities, pedagogies, and practices (pp. 88-106). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003001522

Book Review

Ku, E. K. (2021). Professional development in applied linguistics [Review of the book Professional development in applied linguistics: A guide to success for graduate students and early career faculty, edited by Luke Plonsky]. LINGUIST List, 32-1781. http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1781.html