Process Writing and the Development of Grammatical Competence

This article presents the results of an action research study whose purpose was to apply alternatives for the development of grammatical competence in a group of third semester students of a Morphosyntax I course in an English language teaching undergraduate program at a Colombian public university....

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Main Author: Marco Tulio Artunduaga Cuéllar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: ASOCOPI 2013-10-01
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Online Access:http://howjournalcolombia.org/index.php/how/article/view/21
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spelling doaj-8bfa28a870fe4692809f8c39ccbfd13a2020-11-25T01:21:32ZengASOCOPIHOW0120-59270120-59272013-10-012011135Process Writing and the Development of Grammatical CompetenceMarco Tulio Artunduaga Cuéllar0Universidad SurcolombianaThis article presents the results of an action research study whose purpose was to apply alternatives for the development of grammatical competence in a group of third semester students of a Morphosyntax I course in an English language teaching undergraduate program at a Colombian public university. Given the fact that the teaching of grammar has for a long time been a polemical issue, the study intended to find an effective and meaningful way to develop this competence in a contextualized manner and writing was the selected medium. The results indicate that the use of writing activities to develop grammar generates a mutually enriching process as both linguistic elements are enhanced.http://howjournalcolombia.org/index.php/how/article/view/21Communicative competencegrammatical competenceprocess writing
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Communicative competence
grammatical competence
process writing
author_facet Marco Tulio Artunduaga Cuéllar
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title Process Writing and the Development of Grammatical Competence
title_short Process Writing and the Development of Grammatical Competence
title_full Process Writing and the Development of Grammatical Competence
title_fullStr Process Writing and the Development of Grammatical Competence
title_full_unstemmed Process Writing and the Development of Grammatical Competence
title_sort process writing and the development of grammatical competence
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0120-5927
publishDate 2013-10-01
description This article presents the results of an action research study whose purpose was to apply alternatives for the development of grammatical competence in a group of third semester students of a Morphosyntax I course in an English language teaching undergraduate program at a Colombian public university. Given the fact that the teaching of grammar has for a long time been a polemical issue, the study intended to find an effective and meaningful way to develop this competence in a contextualized manner and writing was the selected medium. The results indicate that the use of writing activities to develop grammar generates a mutually enriching process as both linguistic elements are enhanced.
topic Communicative competence
grammatical competence
process writing
url http://howjournalcolombia.org/index.php/how/article/view/21
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