Creative writing and iconicity in English as a foreign language

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Viana, Vander ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3079-4393 and Zyngier, Sonia (2019) Creative writing and iconicity in English as a foreign language. New Writing, 16 (1). pp. 38-49. ISSN 1479-0726

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Abstract

Creative writing workshops in high-school English-as-a-foreign-language education have had little attention from researchers so far. Addressing this gap, this paper investigates the creative production of Brazilian high-school students after a workshop unit on iconicity. Their iconic poems are analysed visually, thematically and stylistically. Despite variation in students’ self-identified language proficiency, the results show that the poems presented visual and thematic diversity. The stylistic analysis evidenced the richness of students’ creations notwithstanding their lack of English proficiency. Although some surface language infelicities are identified, these do not limit their expression. Overall, the findings reveal that iconicity was not only an appropriate topic for these students, but it also proved to be a genuine way by means of which they could freely express their individuality, breaking away from conventions, reflecting on a variety of matters, and registering their observation of the world and of themselves.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: creative writing,english as a foreign language,high school,iconicity,poetry,stylistics,literature and literary theory ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200/1208
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Education and Lifelong Learning
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Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 13 Sep 2019 00:37
Last Modified: 07 Mar 2024 15:32
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/72161
DOI: 10.1080/14790726.2018.1476554

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