Observing student´s syntactic errors and the perceptions towards writing in the composition course LM-1235

• Navas Brenes, César Alberto ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Costa Rica

     Universidad de Costa Rica

     Hospital, Costa Rica

     
• Localización: Káñina: Revista de Artes y Letras de la Universidad de Costa Rica, ISSN 0378-0473, ISSN-e 2215-2636, Vol. 41, Nº. 1, 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Káñina (January-June)), págs. 109-130
• Idioma: español
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  • 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