Determining the level of composing competence achieved by third-year students of English teaching initial preparation program at Universidad del Bío-Bío

Abstract

Today, when information about the acquisition of a language is easy to find on the web, on books, on magazines and other sources, we can take advantage of it and look for information such as second language acquisition, writing skills and linguistic interference. Nevertheless, there are aspects which have not been studied at all; therefore it is difficult to find information about composing competence and advantages of writing activities in the development of that composing competence. Thus, the main objective of this research is to determine the level of composing competence achieved by third-year students of English Teaching Initial Preparation Program at Universidad del Bío-Bío. In other words, we want to investigate whether students write in a fluent, coherent and effective way. The present investigation “Determining the Level of Composing Competence in Third-Year Students of the English Teaching Initial Preparation Program at Universidad del Bío-Bío” is focused on finding whether students from the sample have been able to develop cognitive skills and metafunctions after three years of exposition to the language and after taking the subjects 19th Century Literature and Written Discourse. The first chapter of this investigation provides the theoretical basis to carry out this research. The second chapter is made up of the requirements and analysis selected according to the features of the investigation. The third chapter shows the results and discussion obtained after the analysis of the different compositions. Finally, we present the conclusions and contributions carried out through this research.