Abstract

LONDONO-VASQUEZ, David Alberto. Strengthening argumentative skills in young university first-year students in Envigado. Rev.latinoam.cienc.soc.niñez juv [online]. 2023, vol.21, n.1, pp.279-303.  Epub May 19, 2023. ISSN 1692-715X.  https://doi.org/10.11600/rlcsnj.21.1.5590.

This paper presents the results of a postdoctoral research whose objective was to strengthen young university firstyear students’ argumentative skills in a school in Envigado (Colombia), because of the low levels identified in prior semesters. Therefore, qualitative hermeneutics-comprehensive research supported in descriptive statistics was done. Entry and exit tests to participants were carried out. 6 workshops were designed based on the entry test results. Each workshop required a class product. Intervention was proposed from text linguistic, critical discourse analysis and pragma-dialectic argumentation. Those students who participated actively in the workshops significantly strengthened their argumentative skills and, as some interviewees mentioned, they recognized these skills use in academic tasks and citizenship participation.

Keywords : Argumentative fallacies; argumentative skills; critical reading; and text production.

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