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Culture and Education
Cultura y Educación
Volume 27, 2015 - Issue 4
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Didactic experiences / Experiencias didácticas

A classroom intervention on Spanish grammar and writing: the use of the past tense with secondary school students / La intervención didáctica en el aula sobre gramática y escritura. El saber gramatical y la revisión de textos en el uso de los tiempos verbales del pasado con alumnos de secundaria

Pages 879-898 | Received 04 Sep 2014, Accepted 06 Apr 2015, Published online: 07 Oct 2015
 

Abstract

This article presents an innovative experience which links grammar teaching with writing, following the premises of the Grammar Didactic Sequences (GDS) with one basic objective: to create a situation in which students learn to reflect on the language they use and are able to use these reflections to improve their writing. The GDS, focused on the use of past tense verb forms, was carried out with fourth-year secondary school students in Spain. This article highlights the difficulties experienced by students when using grammatical concepts as elements to control usage and the importance of revising texts in order to create metalinguistic awareness in a recursive didactic process: from grammar to writing, from writing to grammatical revision, and final version writing.

Resumen

Presentamos una experiencia de renovación de la enseñanza gramatical vinculada a la escritura, bajo los supuestos de las Secuencias Didácticas de Gramática (SDG), con un objetivo básico: crear un espacio donde los estudiantes aprendan a reflexionar sobre la lengua que usan y en el que puedan utilizar estas reflexiones para mejorar su escritura. La SDG, centrada en el uso de los tiempos verbales del pasado, se realizó con alumnos de 4º de ESO. Mostramos las dificultades de los estudiantes para utilizar los conceptos gramaticales como elementos de control del uso y la importancia de la revisión para crear conciencia metalingüística en un proceso didáctico recursivo: de la gramática a la escritura, de la escritura a la revisión gramatical y nuevamente a la escritura.

Notes

1. The student’s writing is reproduced exactly without orthographic changes.

1. Reproducimos la escritura de la estudiante, sin cambios ortográficos.

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