Abstract

NAVAS BRENES, César Alberto. Observing students’ syntactic errors and the perceptions towards writing in the composition course. Káñina [online]. 2017, vol.41, n.1, pp.109-130. ISSN 2215-2636.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rk.v41i1.28839.

The aim of this article is to observe the improvement reached by two groups of English majors in order to identify and correct syntactic errors in a series of six academic paragraphs during two semesters in the second-year course LM-1235 English Composition I at the University of Costa Rica. In addition, it presents a sample lesson with the integration of different language skills so that learners will benefit from cooperative learning, authentic input, and a sequence of interactive tasks to improve their outcome, being this the case of an academic paragraph and its outline. Finally, the writer analyzes the resul ts of a survey questionnaire that assesses the learners’ perception towards the challenges of writing.

Keywords : English composition; writing activities; error correction; feedback; paragraph editing; syntactic errors.

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