TY - BOOK ID - 78641290 TI - Second Language Creative Writers : Identities and Writing Processes PY - 2015 SN - 1783093021 1783093013 9781783093014 9781783093021 9781783092994 9781783093007 1783093005 PB - Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters, DB - UniCat KW - Second language acquisition KW - Academic writing KW - English language KW - Creative writing KW - Writing (Authorship) KW - Authorship KW - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) KW - Germanic languages KW - Learned writing KW - Scholarly writing KW - Second language learning KW - Language acquisition KW - Study and teaching. KW - Study and teaching KW - Foreign speakers. KW - Rhetoric KW - Second language acquisition Study and teaching KW - L2 creative writers. KW - L2 learner identity. KW - L2 writer voices. KW - L2 writing. KW - SLA. KW - Second Language Acquisition. KW - creative writing processes. KW - creative writing. KW - self. KW - writing in an L2. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78641290 AB - 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. ER -