Personal Narratives: A Pedagogical Proposal to Stimulate Language Students’ Writing
In a public university in Tunja (Colombia), undergraduate language students mentioned that writing was important and yet, they kept at a distance from it due to its requirements. The aim of this pedagogical intervention was to find a strategy to encourage students to write and, more importantly, to...
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Asociación Colombiana de Profesores de Ingles
2015-04-01
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| description | In a public university in Tunja (Colombia), undergraduate language students mentioned that writing was important and yet, they kept at a distance from it due to its requirements. The aim of this pedagogical intervention was to find a strategy to encourage students to write and, more importantly, to feel an identity with their texts. For this pedagogical intervention, students were required to write narratives that allowed them to portray their experiences using the target language and to look for the most accurate words and descriptions. From a pedagogical perspective, writing the narratives provided the teacher with the possibility of knowing his students better and to feel an affiliation towards them. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a8b39275438a45b3a3c390a34ca542432023-09-10T05:58:26ZengAsociación Colombiana de Profesores de InglesHOW0120-59272015-04-0122110.19183/how.22.1.134Personal Narratives: A Pedagogical Proposal to Stimulate Language Students’ WritingFredy Orlando Salamanca González0Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, TunjaIn a public university in Tunja (Colombia), undergraduate language students mentioned that writing was important and yet, they kept at a distance from it due to its requirements. The aim of this pedagogical intervention was to find a strategy to encourage students to write and, more importantly, to feel an identity with their texts. For this pedagogical intervention, students were required to write narratives that allowed them to portray their experiences using the target language and to look for the most accurate words and descriptions. From a pedagogical perspective, writing the narratives provided the teacher with the possibility of knowing his students better and to feel an affiliation towards them.https://www.howjournalcolombia.org/index.php/how/article/view/134Life experiencespersonal narrativesstudents’ feelingswriting in a second language |
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| title | Personal Narratives: A Pedagogical Proposal to Stimulate Language Students’ Writing |
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| title_sort | personal narratives a pedagogical proposal to stimulate language students writing |
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