THE DEVELOPMENT OF FANFICTIONAL CREATIVE WRITING IN ENGLISH AS AN ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE

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Carlos Eduardo de Araujo Placido UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MATO GROSSO DO SUL https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4745-3600

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18764/2525-3441v7n21.2022.21

Keywords:

Creative Writing, Sociocultural theory, Fanfiction

Abstract

The Fanfictional Creative Writing (FCW) has been little addressed in contemporary Brazilian academic research. Therefore, the Fanfictional Creative Writing in English as an additional language has been addressed even less (MYERS, 2006; MORLEY, 2007; BLYTHE and SWEET, 2008; HEALEY, 2009; OBERHOLZER, 2014). According to the World Economic Forum (2015), creativity has been gaining more and more space and relevance in globalized educations and social entrepreneurships. However, there is little research that addresses the development of creativity in formal and informal schooling. This may indicate that the educational community is not encouraging the creative development among its students or does not even know how to develop it. For these reasons, the objective of this research was to identify if FCW students could develop their creativity and creative writing texts in English as an additional language (EAL). Thus, an extracurricular FCW course with EAL was organized and taught at USP in 2016. The research methodology encompassed both the organization and the delivery of this FCW course based directly on the Vygotskian sociocultural theory (VYGOTSKY, 2004; 2007). The focus of this article was a case study (DUFF, 2008; DUFF, 2012; DYSON, 2005; STAKE, 2006). As a result, the selected student's textual production showed that there were signs of creative and textual development on digital scripts, fanwriting-creative writing techniques and fandom-paratextual scripts.

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Author Biography

Carlos Eduardo de Araujo Placido, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MATO GROSSO DO SUL

Doutor em estudos linguísticos e literários em inglês pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP), mestre em estudos de literatura pela Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR), bacharel e licenciado em letras (português/ inglês) pela faculdade de filosofia, letras e ciências humanas, na Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Sua área de interesse remete aos estudos linguísticos e literários em língua inglesa e portuguesa, ao ensino de escrita criativa em inglês, à literatura contemporânea americana e brasileira, ao autor irlandês john banville, à diaspora irlandesa, aos estudos identitários, queer e pomossexuais. Já atuou como professor de português e inglês em escolas de línguas.

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2022-09-17

How to Cite

PLACIDO, Carlos Eduardo de Araujo.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF FANFICTIONAL CREATIVE WRITING IN ENGLISH AS AN ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE

. Afluente: Revista de Letras e Linguística, v. 7, n. 21, p. 135–159, 17 Sep. 2022 Disponível em: http://periodicoseletronicos.ufma.br/index.php/afluente/article/view/16374. Acesso em: 23 nov. 2024.