Identity Construction of a Multilingual Writing Tutor

The Peer Review Jan 2020 web Open Access

Identity Construction of a Multilingual Writing Tutor

Abstract

This study explores the identity construction of an individual multilingual writing center tutor in tutoring sessions at an American university. Discourse analysis approach is applied to analyze this multilingual tutor’s language use when interacting with his tutees. The findings indicate that the participant tutor takes on multiple identities: a writing center tutor, a negotiator and collaborator, and a language ambassador. These identities are contingent, fluid, and multifaceted depending on the interactions between the tutor and his tutees. Furthermore, this participant tutor’s identities are co-constructed in the interactions with his tutees through the incorporation of his multilingual resources, and through language and linguistic features which are assigned social meanings by writing center communities. Keywords : multilingual tutor, identity construction, writing center, language indexicality

Journal: The Peer Review
Published: 2020-01
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Topics: discourse analysis writing centers peer tutoring multilingual writers
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