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" Investigating L2 Writers' Investment toward Constructing a Successful Writer Identity: Case Studies of Arab Students from Saudi Arabia Studying in U.S "
Badreyya Alkhanbooli
Thrush, Emily A.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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805069
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TL49913
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2049679612; 10786946
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Waxler, John
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Investigating L2 Writers' Investment toward Constructing a Successful Writer Identity: Case Studies of Arab Students from Saudi Arabia Studying in U.S\ Badreyya AlkhanbooliThrush, Emily A.
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The University of Memphis
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2018
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Ph.D.
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English
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2018
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192
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Committee members: Conley, Mark; Dalle, Teresa S.; Fogle, Evelyn W.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-98397-5
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This study focused on how three Saudi students at a University of Memphis in the U.S. constructed their academic writer identities. The purposes of this study, grounded in sociocultural, constructivism, and discourse theory, were to (a) understand how similar or different were the discourse writing practices in their L1 community (Saudi Arabia) to those writing practices in the L2 community (United States), (b) determine their individual investment in writing academic papers according to writing convention of the L2 community, and (c) elicit aspects of writer identity in their different academic papers written for different courses. I conducted a qualitative case study and collected three discourse based interviews, three graded academic written papers, and one reflective essay from each student.
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Linguistics; English as a Second Language; Case studies; English proficiency; College students; Negotiation; Academic writing; Social identity; English as a second language learning; Academic discourse; Second language writing; Attitudes
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Language, literature and linguistics;Education;Saudi Arabia;University of Memphis
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Thrush, Emily A.
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EnglishThe University of Memphis
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