Observing student´s syntactic errors and the perceptions towards writing in the composition course LM-1235

 

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Autor: Navas Brenes, César Alberto
Formato: artículo original
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de Publicación:2017
Descripción:The aim of this article is to observe the improvement reached by two groups of English majors in order to identify and correct syntactic errors in a series of six academic paragraphs during two semesters in the second-year course LM-1235 English Composition I at the University of Costa Rica. In addition, it presents a sample lesson with the integration of different language skills so that learners will benefit from cooperative learning, authentic input, and a sequence of interactive tasks to improve their outcome, being this the case of an academic paragraph and its outline. Finally, the writer analyzes the resul ts of a survey questionnaire that assesses the learners’ perception towards the challenges of writing
País:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institución:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Lenguaje:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/28839
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/kanina/article/view/28839
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:English composition
writing activities
error correction
feedback
paragraph editing
syntactic errors