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Beyond the sentence in secondary education: a case study of discourse analysis in L2 writings
Author(s) -
Rosa Muñoz Luna
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
odisea revista de estudios ingleses
Language(s) - Spanish
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2174-1611
pISSN - 1578-3820
DOI - 10.25115/odisea.v0i15.276
Subject(s) - humanities , linguistics , cohesion (chemistry) , sociology , philosophy , organic chemistry , chemistry
espanolAprender a escribir en una lengua extranjera requiere dominar los elementos discursivos en la L2. Sin embargo, las corrientes pedagogicas de ensenanza de lenguas tienden a centrarse en un nivel gramatical, dejando estos aspectos discursivos de lado tales como la coherencia y la cohesion. En este articulo, analizamos el discurso academico de un grupo de estudiantes espanoles de nivel intermedio de ingles para ver como las estructuras textuales influyen en el escrito final en L2. Con el fin de obtener un texto coherente y cohesivo, se necesita trabajar la conciencia linguistica en clase a diario: la ensenanza del ingles como L2 debe ser significativa para que la composicion de textos pueda ser mas flexible y natural. EnglishLearning to write in a foreign language requires the mastery of L2 discursive items. However, teaching practices in the field have traditionally focused on a grammatical level, leaving other macrolinguistic aspects aside such as coherence and cohesion. In this paper, we are analysing the written academic discourse of a group of intermediatelevel students of English to see how textual structures actually affect their final written output in L2. In order to obtain a coherent and cohesive text, explicit language awareness must be fostered in class on a daily basis: the teaching of L2 writing needs to be meaningbased so that text composition becomes more flexible and natural.

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