Second Language Creative Writers: Identities and Writing Processes

Yan Zhao

Published by Multilingual Matters 2015

Second Language Creative Writers

Identities and Writing Processes

Yan Zhao

In the series Second Language Acquisition

https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783093014

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About this book

This book elicits L2 creative writers’ own perspectives of their life histories through the form of interviews and think-aloud story writing sessions, and investigates the writers’ emerging writing processes. It integrates socioculturalist L2 identity studies with the typically cognitivist process-oriented L2 writing research.

Author / Editor information

Zhao Yan :

Yan Zhao is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics in the Department of English, Culture and Communication, Xijiao-Liverpool University, PR China. Her research interests include discourse analysis, L2 creative writing, L2 identity and L2 academic writing.

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This exploration of L2 creative writers’ identities and writing processes is a pedagogical mastercraft. It is cutting-edge scholarship in which writers and their writing become an L2 learning resource. The breadth and depth of Yan Zhao’s study are evident in the vast traditions that her critique covers both theoretically and methodologically.

This highly original book gives a penetrating account of the creative processes of second language writers. Drawing on the latest advances and research in sociocultural theory, identity theory and second language acquisition research – Zhao provides a readable yet minutely detailed account of her participants, located within their cultural contexts and personal histories.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Tables and Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
1. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Towards a Cross-Sociocultural Analysis of Creative Writer Identities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
3. Methodology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
4. Quantitative Analyses of the Connection between L2 Creative Writers’ Autobiographical Identities and Their Creative Writing Processes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
5. Quantitative Analyses of Task Influences on L2 Creative Writing Processes and Their Relationship to the Writers’ Autobiographical Identities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
6. L2 Creative Writers’ Sense of Social Localities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
7. Five Focal Cases Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
8. Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Appendix A: Question List for the In-Depth Interview Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
Appendix B: An Illustration of the 19 Communities Established through Coding the Participants’ We- and You-Statements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
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Language: English
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Pages
- Main content: 216
Keywords: L2 creative writers; Second Language Acquisition; SLA; writing in an L2; L2 writing; L2 learner identity; L2 writer voices; self; creative writing; creative writing processes

eBook

Published: February 3, 2015
ISBN: 9781783093014