“L1 interference in l2 writing skills in a1 students at the UTC language center”
In recent years, English has become more common in Ecuadorian society. The ability to communicate through writing is a unique characteristic of the human species and writing has helped people communicate with other human beings. The main aim of this research was to determine the strategies to enhanc...
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| Format: | bachelorThesis |
| Sprache: | eng |
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2022
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| Online Zugang: | http://repositorio.utc.edu.ec/handle/27000/10513 |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | In recent years, English has become more common in Ecuadorian society. The ability to communicate through writing is a unique characteristic of the human species and writing has helped people communicate with other human beings. The main aim of this research was to determine the strategies to enhance writing skills to avoid Spanish (L1) interference in English (L2) writing skills in A1 ‘C’ English students at the UTC Language Center of Latacunga. A written work elaborated by the students was applied and a written partial exam was used as an instrument. A written test was applied to thirty-three university students whose average age is between 20 and 25 years old, from the Language Center of the Technical University of Cotopaxi of English level A1 'C'. There were 18 women and 15 men. In addition, a rubric was applied to evaluate each piece of writing in aiming to recognize the interference errors of the students. In this research, descriptive and diagnostic methods are used because they help us to analyze and describe the veracity of the problem; the interference of the mother tongue in writing skills. For this purpose, the main mother tongue interferences in writing structures between Spanish and English were identified through a bibliographic review. The results obtained through the application of written work, it was determined that most students have errors in punctuation, capitalization, spelling, sentence structure, and word order. Therefore, strategies are useful in the writing process such as: modeled writing, shared writing, guided writing, and independent writing. Some authors talk about these strategies, but it is considered that the most important strategy for teaching writing is guided writing. In addition, this research provides information to teachers and learners about L1 interference in L2 writing skills and the strategies and methods that are useful in the writing learning process. Thus, students created imprecise texts, lacking coherence and cohesion. |
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