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Exploring students’ writing practices in spanish at a higher education level
(2016-01) Cruz Reyna, Cristina
“This thesis reports on a qualitative study concerning expository text a kind of academic writing text. The study was carried out at a public university in a language department which has an English Language Teaching program. This study had two aims. First, it was to study the teacher’s and students’ perspectives regarding academic writing and second, it was to identify the main mistakes students have in this subject. The research data were collected via teacher’s interview, students’ questionnaires and 20 expository texts from a course of academic writing in Spanish. The research findings reveal that the teacher participant perceived academic writing as a complex process in which the most difficult task to carry out by students is the text structure. This can be caused for the different viewpoint of teachers regarding academic writing and also for the lack of a link between school and society. In order to overcome these problems, for the participant, it is necessary to create a standard way of teaching academic writing. On the other hand, for students there is consensus regarding their academic writing perspectives. Besides, the participants mentioned to have problems, mainly with the structure and coherence of the text because of the lack of practice. Feedback, reading and reflection, writing courses.”