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Author Zhao, Yan (Linguist), author.

Title Second language creative writers : identities and writing processes / Yan Zhao.

Publication Info. Bristol ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, ©2015.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Second language acquisition ; 85
Second language acquisition (Clevedon, England) ; 85.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Towards a Cross-Sociocultural Analysis of Creative Writer Identities; 3 Methodology; 4 Quantitative Analyses of the Connection between L2 Creative Writers' Autobiographical Identities and Their Creative Writing Processes; 5 Quantitative Analyses of Task Influences on L2 Creative Writing Processes and Their Relationship to the Writers' Autobiographical Identities; 6 L2 Creative Writers' Sense of Social Localities; 7 Five Focal Cases; 8 Conclusion; Appendix A: Question List for the In-Depth Interview.
Appendix B: An Illustration of the 19 Communities Established through Coding the Participants' We- and You-StatementsReferences; Index.
Summary This monograph investigates 15 L2 creative writers' social constructive power in identity constructions. Through interviews and think-aloud story writing sessions, the central study considers how L2 writer voices are mediated by the writers' autobiographical identities, namely, their sense of selves formulated by their previous language learning and literacy experiences. The inquiry takes the epistemological stance that L2 creative writing is simultaneously a cognitive construct and a social phenomenon and that these two are mutually inclusive. The study contributes to L2 creative writing research and L2 learner identity research and will be of benefit to researchers, language teachers and writing instructors who wish to understand creative writing processes in order to help develop their students' positive self-esteem, confidence, motivation and engagement with the L2.
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Subject Second language acquisition -- Study and teaching.
Second language acquisition -- Study and teaching.
Second language acquisition.
Academic writing -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers.
Academic writing -- Study and teaching.
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers.
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers.
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.
Creative writing -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers.
Creative writing -- Study and teaching.
LANGUAGE TEACHING & LEARNING (OTHER THAN ELT)
Language learning: specific skills.
Creative writing & creative writing guides.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Other Form: Print version: Zhao, Yan. Second Language Creative Writers : Identities and Writing Processes. Clevedon : Channel View Publications, ©2015
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