This article presents a new approach to examining second language writing among young learners, which I define as ''Language mosaic''. It offers a new perspective on the process of writing development and examines how and what children do in the writing process while developing an additional language.The concept of language mosaic combines two elements: the relationship between first and second/new language (e.g. interlanguage; code-switching) and the process of the first stages of writing development in a new language. In this article I analyse children's writing in the light of language mosaic features and discuss it as representing writing development in particular and literacy in general in the first stages of learning a new language.
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