Abstract

LOPEZ J., Gladys Stella  and  RAMIREZ GIRALDO, Ricardo. Summary Writing as a Learning Strategy. Leng. [online]. 2012, vol.40, n.2, pp.315-350. ISSN 0120-3479.

This article presents the findings of an interdisciplinary study on summary writing as a learning strategy which was carried out by a language professor and an engineering professor in the Materials Resistance course, offered to Universidad del Valle engineering students. The ultimate purpose in using this strategy was to raise students' consciousness about the key role of writing in their learning process. Unlike traditional summary writing, these ones were not written for the professor for him to assess whether the students had reviewed course contents. Instead, summaries provided the students with an opportunity to monitor their own learning process and express what they had learned in a written format. A portion of the class session was devoted to check students' production, so that they could assess self-progress. A quantitative-qualitative methodology was used to analyze the experience which was based on data collected by means of a survey and records of class interventions. This analysis shows that introducing students to summary writing as a meta-cognitive strategy had a positive influence on their learning process

Keywords : Learning strategies; summary writing; knowledge construction; writing for learning.

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