A Positioning Analysis of ELL Academic Writers’ Selves

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Andrea Lypka
Wei Zhu

Location

2081

Format Type

Paper

Start Date

January 2015

End Date

January 2015

Abstract

A positioning analysis of small stories of three English language learners’ (ELLs’) writing complemented with big story data from interviews reveals how writer identity is performed in and fragmented by academic discourses in an Academic English course. We show how analysis of content, linguistic forms, context, and positioning in small and big story data provides a holistic view of identity constructions that comply with or resist academic discourses.

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A Positioning Analysis of ELL Academic Writers’ Selves

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A positioning analysis of small stories of three English language learners’ (ELLs’) writing complemented with big story data from interviews reveals how writer identity is performed in and fragmented by academic discourses in an Academic English course. We show how analysis of content, linguistic forms, context, and positioning in small and big story data provides a holistic view of identity constructions that comply with or resist academic discourses.