Second Language Creative Writers

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.

• 1. Introduction2. Towards a Cross-Sociocultural Analysis of Creative Writer Identities3. Methodology4. Quantitative Analyses of the Connection Between L2 Creative Writers’ Autobiographical Identities and Their Creative Writing Processes5. Quantitative Analyses of Task Influences on L2 Creative Writing Processes and Their Relationship to the Writers’ Autobiographical Identities6. L2 Creative Writers’ Sense of Social Localities7. Five Focal Cases8. Conclusion

(Academics involved in research on writing) will value the cutting-edge research framework and the way in which the author has integrated quantitative and qualitative tools in her data collection and analysis.