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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Positioning, Agency, and Community
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ISBN
9781498594578
Publisert
2020
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Vendor
Lexington Books
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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