Second Language Creative Writers : : Identities and Writing Processes / / Yan Zhao.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Zhao, Yan,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Second Language Acquisition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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