Using portfolios as a powerful strategy to foster and develop students writing skill in EFL

This article emphasises on the use of portfolios as a powerful strategy to monitor the students’ writing performance in EFL and foster their writing production by means of taking advantage of their interests and beliefs when creating different types of compositions. Some of the ideas included in thi...

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Main Author: Daniel Albeiro Melgarejo M.
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios 2006-02-01
Series:Práxis Pedagógica
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Online Access:http://biblioteca.uniminuto.edu/ojs/index.php/praxis/article/view/943
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spelling doaj-68b47f44e12e443ba78732b8acbf84682020-11-25T01:03:50ZspaCorporación Universitaria Minuto de DiosPráxis Pedagógica0124-14942006-02-016714615710.26620/uniminuto.praxis.6.7.2006.146-157901Using portfolios as a powerful strategy to foster and develop students writing skill in EFLDaniel Albeiro Melgarejo M.0Corporación Universitaria Minuto de DiosThis article emphasises on the use of portfolios as a powerful strategy to monitor the students’ writing performance in EFL and foster their writing production by means of taking advantage of their interests and beliefs when creating different types of compositions. Some of the ideas included in this article come from a large project research carried out with children between 9 and 13 years old who were in the Intermediate level of “Cursos de Extensión” at Universidad Pedagó- gica Nacional. The data analysis component is still in process and it is part of the thesis proposed by the author for the Master in Applied Linguistics for the TEFL at Universidad Distrital “Francisco José de Caldas”.http://biblioteca.uniminuto.edu/ojs/index.php/praxis/article/view/943Escrituraenfoque de proceso escrituralportafoliosintereses de los niños.
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Using portfolios as a powerful strategy to foster and develop students writing skill in EFL
Práxis Pedagógica
Escritura
enfoque de proceso escritural
portafolios
intereses de los niños.
author_facet Daniel Albeiro Melgarejo M.
author_sort Daniel Albeiro Melgarejo M.
title Using portfolios as a powerful strategy to foster and develop students writing skill in EFL
title_short Using portfolios as a powerful strategy to foster and develop students writing skill in EFL
title_full Using portfolios as a powerful strategy to foster and develop students writing skill in EFL
title_fullStr Using portfolios as a powerful strategy to foster and develop students writing skill in EFL
title_full_unstemmed Using portfolios as a powerful strategy to foster and develop students writing skill in EFL
title_sort using portfolios as a powerful strategy to foster and develop students writing skill in efl
publisher Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios
series Práxis Pedagógica
issn 0124-1494
publishDate 2006-02-01
description This article emphasises on the use of portfolios as a powerful strategy to monitor the students’ writing performance in EFL and foster their writing production by means of taking advantage of their interests and beliefs when creating different types of compositions. Some of the ideas included in this article come from a large project research carried out with children between 9 and 13 years old who were in the Intermediate level of “Cursos de Extensión” at Universidad Pedagó- gica Nacional. The data analysis component is still in process and it is part of the thesis proposed by the author for the Master in Applied Linguistics for the TEFL at Universidad Distrital “Francisco José de Caldas”.
topic Escritura
enfoque de proceso escritural
portafolios
intereses de los niños.
url http://biblioteca.uniminuto.edu/ojs/index.php/praxis/article/view/943
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