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Yan Zhao - Second Language Creative Writers: Identities and Writing Processes - 9781783092994 - V9781783092994
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Second Language Creative Writers: Identities and Writing Processes

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Description for Second Language Creative Writers: Identities and Writing Processes Paperback. Focusing on the notion of identity, 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. Series: Second Language Acquisition. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CFDC; CJC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 334.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Channel View Publications Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Second Language Acquisition
Condition
New
Weight
333g
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783092994
SKU
V9781783092994
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Yan Zhao
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.

Reviews for Second Language Creative Writers: Identities and Writing Processes
(Academics involved in research on writing) will value the cutting-edge research framework and the way in which the author has integrated quantitative and qualitative tools in her data collection and analysis.
Darío Luis Banegas, University of Warwick, UK
Journal of Language, Identity & Education, 16:1

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