A pedagogical proposal to enhance the use of Linking Words in order to improve students' discourse competence
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A pedagogical proposal to enhance the use of Linking Words in order to improve students' discourse competenceAuthor (s)
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Edo Marzá, NuriaTutor/Supervisor; University.Department
Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis AnglesosDate
2014Publisher
Universitat Jaume IAbstract
Linking words are extremely important linguistic items which help to make the
connections between sentences and utterances clear and to integrate and establish relations
within a whole text. As such, they are essential ... [+]
Linking words are extremely important linguistic items which help to make the
connections between sentences and utterances clear and to integrate and establish relations
within a whole text. As such, they are essential devices to create complete texts as well as to
ease the conversation flow. Thus, they are directly linked with the speakers' discourse
competence and they are key elements to be taught and learnt by our students if we want them
to become competent users of a language.
This paper is aimed at presenting a pedagogical proposal to teach linking words and to
improve and develop their knowledge regarding their effective use and functioning on the part
of students. In order to do that, first of all, a preliminary study was carried out by means of
observing three different aspects: the students' textbook, a set of written samples, and a
questionnaire. The aim was to analyse the students' pre-instruction use of these linking
devices considering the established parameters, and to identify their needs and perceptions.
After that, from the results obtained, a didactic unit theoretically grounded on “modified
inductive learning” and the development of the “communicative-discursive competence” was
designed and implemented in order to obtain further results and to draw conclusions about the
possible effectiveness of the didactic unit proposed and introduced.
Finally, the results of the students' post-unit (post-instruction) writings were firstly
analysed by following the same parameters previously applied to the pre-unit (pre-instruction)
written samples, and then, compared to the ones obtained in the preliminary study in order to
test the efficiency of the didactic unit designed and its implementation. In sum, results suggest
that the teaching-learning proposal on linking words was useful and helpful for the students,
since their knowledge of linking words seemed to improve and they were able to integrate
different categories, and a wider variety of linking words correctly used in their discourse. [-]
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Màster Universitari en Professor/a d'Educació Secundària Obligatòria i Batxillerat, Formació Professional i Ensenyaments d'Idiomes | Máster Universitario en Profesor/a de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria y Bachillerato, Formación Profesional y Enseñanzas de Idiomas | Master's Degree in Secondary Education, Vocational Training and Language Teaching | Enseñanza de una segunda lengua | Análisis de la conversación | Conectores linguísticos en el inglés | Llengua segona | Anàlisi del discurs | Anglès - Connectors
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Treball Final de Màster Universitari en Professor/a d'Educació Secundària Obligatòria i Batxillerat, Formació Professional i Ensenyaments d'Idiomes. Codi: SAP129. Curs: 2013/2014
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