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Multimodalities and Chinese Students' L2 Practices: Positioning, Agency, and Community
Contributor(s): Wang, Min (Author), Gee, James Paul (Foreword by)

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 ISBN: 1498594565     ISBN-13: 9781498594561
Publisher: Lexington Books
OUR PRICE: $105.00  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics
- Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language
- History | Asia - General
Dewey: 428.007
LCCN: 2021279224
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.96 lbs) 180 pages
Features: Bibliography
 
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Multimodalities and Chinese Students' L2 Practices: Identity, Community, and Literacy explores the complex relations and interactions among multimodality, positioning, and agency in increasingly digitized, multilingual, and multicultural contexts. Min Wang uses interview narratives, WeChat exchanges, and class observations and field notes of three Chinese international students' lived experiences of English learning to show that these L2 learners recognized and appropriated multiple modes and digital tools for their L2 literacies practices. They used multimodalities to position themselves as L2 users who are confident, able, and competent, but sometimes also struggling and ambivalent. The practice of meaning-making, remaking, designing, and redesigning demonstrated their agency as L2 learners. Positioned as cultural and social beings, these L2 learners presented their self-understandings and self-representations through symbolic and material artifacts, interactions with local and non-local people, and engagement in WeChat discussions and ELI learning. They assumed rights, obligations, and expectations in order to become legitimate community members. In the process their agency was promoted, negotiated, or sometimes limited by micro-social structures and ongoing interactions.
 
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