Syntactic Complexity in Secondary-level English WritingDifferences Among Writers Enrolled on Bilingual and Non-bilingual Programmes

  1. Ana Cristina Lahuerta Martínez 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Oviedo
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    Universidad de Oviedo

    Oviedo, España

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Revista:
Porta Linguarum: revista internacional de didáctica de las lenguas extranjeras

ISSN: 1697-7467

Año de publicación: 2017

Número: 28

Páginas: 67-80

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.30827/DIGIBUG.54003 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

Otras publicaciones en: Porta Linguarum: revista internacional de didáctica de las lenguas extranjeras

Resumen

Este estudio examina la complejidad sintáctica en las composiciones de estudiantes de educación secundaria de un programa bilingüe y otro no bilingüe. Los participantes eran 393 alumnos de tercer y cuarto curso de educación secundaria obligatoria. Se analizaron las composiciones de los participantes mediante medidas de complejidad sintáctica en los niveles de oración, cláusula y frase. Los resultados muestran que los estudiantes del grupo bilingüe obtienen significativamente mejores resultados en todas las medidas de complejidad sintáctica. La comparación entre niveles en ambos grupos muestra un aumento significativo en la coordinación y la elaboración a nivel de la frase en ambos grupos pero no una diferencia significativa en subordinación en el grupo bilingüe lo que parece indicar una posible interacción entre coordinación y subordinación según el programa seleccionado

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