Using Process Writing in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language

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Jesús Martínez

Instituto Superior de Formación Docente Salomé Ureña, República Dominicana

jesus.martinez@isfodosu.edu.do

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4421-0793

Alexander López-Díaz

Concordia University Chicago, US

crf_lopezda2@cuchicago.edu

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5995-5042

Elica Pérez

Universidad Central del Este, República Dominicana

emperez@uce.edu.do

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2516-6432

Resumen

La escritura es, a veces, descuidada tanto por los profesores como por los alumnos. Con demasiada frecuencia, los cursos implican un énfasis en la habilidad de hablar y la instrucción directa de gramática, sin embargo, prestan poca atención a las habilidades de escritura y más específicamente, a la escritura académica. De hecho, al abordar la escritura, los maestros pueden tener diferentes enfoques, uno de ellos es la escritura de proceso. El estudio actual explora la implementación de la escritura de procesos como herramienta para desarrollar las habilidades de escritura de los estudiantes en el contexto de la escritura de párrafos. Los estudiantes pasaron por cuatro lecciones y se utilizó un formato pretest-post test para realizar investigaciones y evaluar datos. La investigación de acción fue un paradigma utilizado para estructurar este estudio. Por último, la investigación concluyó que la escritura del proceso es propicia para habilidades de escritura más fuertes que resultan en párrafos más organizados y estructurados.

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English English as a foreign language EFL language education language instruction language teaching second language teaching second language writing

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Martínez, J., López-Díaz, A., & Pérez, E. (2020). Using Process Writing in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language. RECIE. Revista Caribeña De Investigación Educativa, 4(1), 49–61. https://doi.org/10.32541/recie.2020.v4i1.pp49-61

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