Multilingual Matters
Second Language Creative Writers
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
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.
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
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
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Contents
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Tables and Figures
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Acknowledgements
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1. Introduction
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2. Towards a Cross-Sociocultural Analysis of Creative Writer Identities
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3. Methodology
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4. Quantitative Analyses of the Connection between L2 Creative Writers’ Autobiographical Identities and Their Creative Writing Processes
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5. Quantitative Analyses of Task Influences on L2 Creative Writing Processes and Their Relationship to the Writers’ Autobiographical Identities
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6. L2 Creative Writers’ Sense of Social Localities
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7. Five Focal Cases
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8. Conclusion
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Appendix A: Question List for the In-Depth Interview
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Appendix B: An Illustration of the 19 Communities Established through Coding the Participants’ We- and You-Statements
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References
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