Short Presentation L2 learners’ emergent academic identity construction: an exploratory investigation into their writing assignments more

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L2 learners need both academic reading and writing for university assignments, such as summaries, discussions, and argumentative papers. For a summary and discussion assignment, L2 learners read a text, summarize the author’s argument, and evaluate it critically, presenting their viewpoints as academic writers. Learners are encouraged to develop their academic identity through their awareness of reader-writer relationships, academic conventions, and genre. To date, little research has explored the theme of L2 learners’ academic identity development through reading-to-write assignments. The author investigated 23 L2 students’ reflective writing on their summary and discussion assignments in university academic English courses. The author presents the results from selected students, which illustrate their awareness of reader-writer relationships and emergent academic identities.