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Second Language Creative Writers: Identities and Writing Processes

Second Language Creative Writers: Identities and Writing Processes

Paperback

Series: Second Language Acquisition, Book 85

General ReferenceLinguisticsWriting Instruction

ISBN10: 1783092998
ISBN13: 9781783092994
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Published: Feb 3 2015
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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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