Abstract

VERGARA NOVOA, Alonso  and  PERDOMO CERQUERA, María Elena. IMPROVING ORAL AND WRITTEN COMMUNICATION IN ENGLISH THROUGH COLLABORATIVE CREATIVE WRITING SCAFFOLDING: A DESIGN STUDY FROM THE DISTRIBUTED COGNITION APPROACH. Forma funcion, Santaf, de Bogot, D.C. [online]. 2017, vol.30, n.1, pp.117-155. ISSN 0120-338X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/fyf.v30nl.62417.

This article presents findings of a study conducted to determine the incidence of collaborative creative writing scaffolding in the oral and written production of English in students of Philology and Languages at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. The scaffolding brought together the theoretical basis for the acquisition of languages, creative writing and distributed cognition. This was Design Based Research with a qualitative approach. The findings revealed that scaffolding was useful to improve expressive abilities, generating a high level of interaction in English and raising metalinguistic awareness and autonomy in students' regulation of their own learning. This study can contribute to the generation of suitable strategies to improve pre-service English teachers' professional qualifications, given that, according to statistics, a high percentage of English teachers finish the undergraduate program with a language level lower than that required for their profession in Colombia.

Keywords : scaffolding; distributed cognition; collaborative writing; written and oral expression.

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