La combinación de oraciones en la producción escrita del inglés como L2

Abstract

This experimental research on the usage of the sentence combining technique in the L2 writing process tries to optimize the writing of texts among Spanish speakers who learn or acquiere the English language in the classroom. For more than a year; the same was exposed to the internalization of grammar elements in contexts (Dirección de Investigación de la Universidad de Chile de Concepción; code 94.65.17-1; CHILE). To achieve the general objective; a Control Group and an Experimental Group were selected. The first one developed a traditional Writing Program to write English texts and the second one developed integrated strategies when exposed to different computing sentence combining exercises according to a Pilot Plan. This Plan was designed to develop reading; speaking and writing competences. The research design consisted of a Prestest/ Development of integrated strategies/Postest. The independent variable was that of combining sentence and the dependent variables were the following: text organization; lexical coherence; cohesion; logic progression of ideas and punctuation. These variables helped to achieve the results and to accept the hypothesis given in the study. Statistical means applied to the information obtained in the written texts showed that the experimental group results were higher than those of the control group and the students could write better qualified articles.