商品簡介
This book examines the writing practices of three adult multilingual writers through the prism of their writing in English as an additional language. It illustrates some of the social, cultural and political contexts of the writers' literacy activities and discusses how these impact their literate and intellectual lives. It reflects on the para- and meta-textual dimensions of writing because organic writing practices are almost always performed within sociocultural and power relational contexts. In our highly compartmentalized educational structures, writing education has been severed from those organic components, focusing mainly on writing stylistics. This book proposes creating space for organic writing practices in our everyday writing pedagogies, and argues for a writing pedagogy that acknowledges the complex interactions of social, emotional and identity-related layers of writing."This book reports findings from an ethnographic study of the literate lives of three adult multilingual writers, conducted in order to describe how their socioculturally embedded literacy activities enriched their writing lives. The book argues that multilingual writers who can effectively write in English have complex literate, intellectual and cultural backgrounds that impact their writing practices. Dominant writing pedagogies don't often regard tapping into those layers as important pedagogical components in the process of teaching writing. The book highlights the significance of paying more attention to sociocultural and power relational layers of writing and provides recommendations for language teachers, educational policy makers and language and literacy researchers. The book brings together the fields of literacy research and second language writing and treats writing in both first and additional languages as part of a whole.
