LINGUIST List 26.781

Fri Feb 06 2015

Books: Second Language Creative Writers: Zhao

Editor for this issue: Sara Couture <saralinguistlist.org>


Date: 06-Feb-2015
From: Elinor Robertson <marketingmultilingual-matters.com>
Subject: Second Language Creative Writers: Zhao
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Title: Second Language Creative Writers
Subtitle: Identities and Writing Processes
Series Title: Second Language Acquisition
Published: 2015
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
                http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

Book URL: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783092994

Author: Yan Zhao
Hardback: ISBN: 9781783093007 Pages: 216 Price: U.K. £ 89.95
Hardback: ISBN: 9781783093007 Pages: 216 Price: U.S. $ 159.95
Paperback: ISBN: 9781783092994 Pages: 216 Price: U.K. £ 24.95
Paperback: ISBN: 9781783092994 Pages: 216 Price: U.S. $ 39.95
Abstract:

This monograph investigates fifteen 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.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                            Language Acquisition
                            Sociolinguistics

Written In: English (eng)

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