Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: expresión escrita

Resumen:

Drawing upon the dialogic theory, this study investigated the effects of writing personal experience narratives (PENs) of critical events on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ narrative competence development. The study collected a multiple source of data from 66 students at one Chinese university, including PENs of critical events, reflective journals, and semi-structured interviews. PENs were concerned with students’ critical events during the transitional periods of life from secondary to higher education, whereas reflective journals and interviews were used to gain students’ perceptions of narrative writing and narrative competence. Narrative competence was assessed via narrative writing performance, narrative coherence, and narrative cohesion. It was found that writing PENs over a period of two semesters aided EFL...

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