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LEC 💡 Metalinguistic Feedback to Foster the Writing Skill Through Task Activities: A Teaching Portfolio
April 25 at 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM BMT
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In Colombia, English is a mandatory subject in all academic institutions. Despite national policies requiring students to reach a B1 English level by the end of secondary school, many students still struggle with writing skills, showing frequent grammar, spelling, punctuation, cohesion, and coherence issues. To address this, our proposal focuses on applying Metalinguistic Feedback as a key strategy for improving writing in B1 English students from a language center in Pasto.
Through 16 lesson plans based on Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT), students will receive metalinguistic feedback on their writing tasks, allowing them to recognize and correct their mistakes while developing greater language awareness. The progress and outcomes will be documented in a teaching portfolio, as a reflective tool to assess the strategy’s effectiveness.
This research aims to demonstrate how metalinguistic feedback can improve writing, enhance learning self-regulation, and contribute to better academic outcomes in English education.
Vanessa Buesaquillo and Angie Jimenez hold a BA English and Spanish and are currently MA students in Teaching English and Spanish as Foreign Languages at Universidad de Nariño
Both teachers have worked at Champagnat School ( Ipiales) and Nuestra Señora de las Lajas School (Pasto) in primary and secondary levels.
Me parece muy interesante el tema de investigación.