Implementing Process Writing: a report from a Lengua Inglesa course

LOPEZ BARRIOS, MARIO LUIS; BOLLATI DE LÓPEZ, MARISEL

Bahía Blanca

Congreso; Congreso Anual de la Federación Argentina de Asociaciones de Profesores de Inglés; 1998

Asociación de Profesores de Inglés de Bahía Blanca

Moved by both the belief and empirical evidence about the effectiveness of the Process Writing approach, the authors are conducting an experiment in a Lengua Inglesa II course which aims at testing the effectivess of multiple peer reading, commenting and assessing of the drafts on the students´ written productions. The results so far reveal that, with appropriate training, students can become critical readers, and, given clear instructions, they can pass a grounded value judgement of their fellow students´ texts. This criticism allows the writers to have a better understanding of their own shortcomings and it can also lead to a progressive overall improvement of their drafts.