Second Language Creative Writers: Identities and Writing Processes

✍ Scribed by Yan Zhao

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 214
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

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