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What Happens in English Class Doesn’t Stay in English Class: How College Writers Remember, Story, and Inhabit the Past in the Present
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This qualitative narrative study investigated the relationship between emerging adults’ understandings of themselves as writers and their autobiographical memories of writing. Narrative data, largely elicited through semi-structured interviews, were collected from 14 participants who were recruited from six postsecondary institutions. Recruitment efforts aimed to yield participants who had divergent educational experiences, career ambitions, and dispositions towards writing, and who inhabited divergent racial, social, and cultural identities. The study contributes to writer identity research by applying a sociocultural framework that holds memory, narrative, identity, and culture as reflections—and, often, distortions—of each other. The research questions, asked through this lens, aimed to provide insight into the emotional residues of pre-college writing experiences, the potential patterning of narrated memories or identities among participants, and the ways in which the stories participants shared and the identities they storied shape each other. While this is fundamentally an inquiry into the narrative features of writer identity, it is also a study about how certain lived writing experiences reincarnate as highly emotive autobiographical memories; even if such memories tend to be unstable, unreliable, and suggestable, they are nonetheless meaningful reflections of the lingering effects of the past. Through this retrospective study, a portrait emerges of classroom conditions and writing experiences that are particularly hospitable to the nurturement of positive memories and healthy writing identities, as well as to the inverse. This research is intended to speak to both secondary English teachers and English teacher educators and college composition instructors by bridging secondary and postsecondary understandings of how student writers are moving between worlds, the memories they are bringing with them, and the ways in which they might be storying their writer identities en route.
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Autobiography; College students; Creative writing (Higher education)--Study and teaching; Education; English language--Study and teaching (Higher); English teachers--Training of
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URL: https://doi.org/10.7916/xj2t-ja03
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The dynamics of foreign language values in Sweden: a social history ; Dinamika vrednot tujih jezikov na Švedskem: socialna zgodovina
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In: CEPS Journal 12 (2022) 1, S. 125-146 (2022)
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Factors Influencing Students' Willingness to Communicate in Korean Elementary School EFL Classrooms
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In: Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research (2022)
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Plain Language or Anything But?
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In: Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research (2022)
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Blended learning: Barriers and drawbacks for English language lecturers at Vietnamese universities
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In: Research outputs 2014 to 2021 (2022)
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Attributions of Successful English Language Learners in Transfer-Level English
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In: Doctoral Dissertations and Projects (2022)
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Factors Predicting Identification of Giftedness Resulting from Universal Screening
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In: Doctoral Dissertations and Projects (2022)
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English is Not Dead! Long Live English: Teaching the Evolution of English and Inclusive Communication Via Online, Face to Face or Hybrid Instruction
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In: Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy (2022)
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Teachers' Perceptions of Cultural Contents in English Language Textbooks Used in Multicultural Classrooms at a Thai Primary School
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In: ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies ; 14 ; 2 ; 227-241 ; Multicultural Lingual and Multicultural Education (2022)
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Supporting the Oral Language Development of Young Dual Language Learners: Perspectives of EL Teachers in NH
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In: Honors Theses and Capstones (2022)
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Parenting of 1.5 generation Chinese Americans’ parents: A case study
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In: Journal of Global Education and Research (2022)
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Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaften in den Disability Studies
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Helduser, Urte. - : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2022. : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2022
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Life, Strength, Woman: English Translation of Julia de Burgos’s Poetry
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In: Honors Theses, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2022)
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Dancing and Poetry: A Study of the Whirling Dervish Dance Through Rumi’s Poetry
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In: Honors Theses, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2022)
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Quantitative Study of Predictive Relationships Between English Language Proficiency, Academic Growth, and Academic Achievement Assessments in North Georgia
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Delivering on a Promise: A Longitudinal Cohort Study of Emergent Bilinguals' Academic Achievement in a Utah Dual Language Program
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In: All Graduate Theses and Dissertations (2022)
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