Encouraging Learners' Writing Engagement: The Role of a Life Project Based on Students Interests

ABSTRACT: This action research paper relates the experience of a teacher-researcher with an eighth-grade group in the public school Institución Educativa Lucrecio Jaramillo in Medellín. The purpose of this study was to encourage learners’ writing engagement using a life project based on their interests. Actions included the implementation of a life project and design of activities according to the students’ interests oriented by a teaching and learning cycle, scaffolding strategies and the genre-based approach. The data collection instruments were a questionnaire, teacher journals, students’ artifacts, and focus group interviews. Findings showed that the design of activities according to the students' interests mediated through a teaching and learning cycle and scaffolding strategies could improve writing engagement as well as writing production.

• Autores: Galeano Uribe, Maria Camila
• Tipo de recurso: Trabajo de grado de pregrado
• Fecha de publicación: 2022
• Institución: Universidad de Antioquia
• Repositorio: Repositorio UdeA
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/33555
• Acceso en línea: https://hdl.handle.net/10495/33555
• Palabra clave: Action research; English language - Study and teaching; Public schools; Genre-based approach; Teaching and learning; Writing strategies; http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85000722; http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh8504370 5; http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85108801
• Rights: openAccess
• License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/