Exploring second language creative writing : beyond Babe / / edited by Dan Disney

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464943103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, Netherlands : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 90-272-7035-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (163 p.)
• Collana: Linguistic Approaches to Literature (LAL), , 1569-3112 ; ; Volume 19
• Disciplina: 808/.042071
• Soggetti: Creative writing - Study and teaching; Second language acquisition - Study and teaching; Language and languages - Study and teaching; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Exploring Second Language Creative Writing; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; Appreciating the beauty of second language poetry writing; 1. On the beauty of second language writing; 2. Writing poetry within the ESL composition classroom; 3. Can second language learners actually write poetry?; 4. New ways of seeing; 5. Repositioning the second language literacy instruction; Learner and writer voices; 1. Writers in search of a voice: Second language writing and the search for self; 2. A reading-to-writing cycle: Reading as a writer; 2.1 Choice; 2.2 Articulation3. Application: Writing as a reader and finding a second language voice; 3.1 Two voices, two identities, one self; 3.2 Language as metaphor; 3.3 Personifying home and language; 3.4 Monologue and dialogue; 3.5 Words, names and wordplay; 3.6 Language patterns and repetition; 4. Learner writer reflections on creativity and the second language writing process; 4.1 Reflections on language learning processes; 4.2 Reflections on creative processes; 5. Second language writer voices and a creative writing pedagogy; "Is this how it's supposed to work?"; 1. Creative writing and identity-acquisition2. Observations on observing; 3. A line is a line is a line?; 4. Image and figuration; 5. Conclusions; Literary translation as a creative practicein L2 writing pedagogies; 1. Creativity and learning; 2. Creativity and literary translation; 3. The role of translation in the L2 classroom; 4. The creative translation workshop as a tool for language learning; 5. The live creative translation workshop; 6. The virtual creative translation workshop; 7. Conclusion; Process and product, means and ends; 1. Why teach Creative Writing in English in the non-native speaking context?2. Whose territory would Creative Writing in English in the non-native speaking context be?; 3. On the Confucian heritage context for teaching and learning; 4. Rectifying orthodoxies for a creative agenda; 5. Macao stories and Creative Writing at the University of Macau; 6. ASM and the Publishing Agenda; 7. Poetry and poetry translation/response; 8. What future for a creative inter-discipline?; Curriculum as cultural critique; 1. A sense of dispossession: The political, cultural and linguistic situations of Hong Kong; 2. The aim of a critical pedagogy: Language as a field of thought3. Creative writing pedagogy: Cultural critique and culture as resource; Co-constructing a community of creative writers; 1. Theorizing social learning and identity construction; 2. Contextualizing Bruneian society and culture: Bilingualism and bilingual creativity; 3. L2 Creative writing community: Co-construction of knowledges and identities; 4. Conclusions; References; Notes on contributors; Name index; Subject index
• Sommario/riassunto: In this chapter, Grace V.S. Chin explores how recent studies of creative writing have moved away from prevailing ideas of individual creative acts to explore the social dimensions of creativity. Using a sociocultural approach, Chin examines the interrelated notions of identity, language, and place by investigating L2 creative writing, specifically playwriting, as a social, learning process within the postcolonial, bilingual, and sociocultural contexts of Brunei Darussalam. The theories of Vygotsky and Foucault are expanded on to show how Creative Writing (SL) classes are interactional spaces w

Information Retrieval : 26th China Conference, CCIR 2020, Xi'an, China, August 14–16, 2020, Proceedings / / edited by Zhicheng Dou, Qiguang Miao, Wei Lu, Jiaxin Mao, Guang Jia

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910416085703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020
• ISBN: 3-030-56725-7
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2020.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XII, 161 p. 48 illus., 42 illus. in color.)
• Collana: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues, , 2512-2029 ; ; 12285
• Disciplina: 025.04
• Soggetti: Information storage and retrieval systems; Computer engineering; Computer networks; Database management; Electronic commerce; Social sciences - Data processing; Computers; Information Storage and Retrieval; Computer Engineering and Networks; Database Management; e-Commerce and e-Business; Computer Application in Social and Behavioral Sciences; Computing Milieux
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Search and Recommendation -- Improving Search Snippets in Context-aware Web Search Scenarios -- Investigating Fine-grained Usefulness Perception Process in Mobile Search -- ResFusion: A Residual Learning based Fusion Framework for CTR Prediction -- NLP for IR -- A Framework for Identifying Event's Relevance Comments in Twitter -- Enriching Pre-trained Language Model with Dependency Syntactic Information for Chemical-Protein Interaction Extraction -- Leveraging ; Label Semantics and Correlations for Judgment Prediction -- Position-aware hybrid attention network for Aspect-level Sentiment Analysis -- IR in Finance -- An Integrated Machine Learning Framework for Stock Price Prediction -- Empirical Research on Futures Trading Strategy Based on Time Series Algorithm -- Hierarchical Attention Network in Stock Prediction -- Online Topic Detection and Tracking System and its Application on Stock Market in China -- Semi-Supervised Sentiment Analysis for Chinese Stock Texts in Scarce Labeled Data Scenario and Price Prediction.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th China Conference on Information Retrieval, CCIR 2020, held in Xi'an, China, in August 2020.* The 12 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections: search and recommendation, NLP for IR, and IR in finance. * Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online supplemented with local on-site events.