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From a sociocultural perspective I focus on the teaching and learning of research literacy practices. I am currently analyzing writing groups as pedagogical devices that help acquiring the literacy practices related to writing for publishing and dissertation writing at the postgraduate level.
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- Tomando aportes de las teorías socioculturales y los estudios sobre Literacidad, investiga el aprendizaje de la escritura académica en primera y segunda lengua.
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A nivel de posgrado, la sensación de soledad y aislamiento experimentada por los tesistas dificulta la culminación de sus estudios. Ante el desafío que supone el proceso de escritura de la tesis y las emociones que este suscita, los grupos de escritura son iniciativas valiosas para apoyar a los estudiantes en esta etapa: los de tipo concurrente se...
Este libro parte de asumir que la globalización y las tecnologías digitales han transformado radicalmente la producción y difusión del conocimiento científico-académico. Así, partiendo de investigaciones recientes, en la obra se propone un enfoque dialógico de la enseñanza virtual de la escritura en la investigación, que pone énfasis en el papel de...
Desde la década de los 80 la perspectiva de los Nuevos Estudios de Literacidad (NEL) planteó la discusión sobre la necesidad de marcar una diferencia entre la literacidad considerada como una habilidad que se adquiría en la escuela independiente del contexto (modelo autónomo) y la literacidad considerada como una práctica social moldeada por factor...
Peer response writing groups support faculty in their development as scholarly writers around the globe. Nevertheless, little is known about feedback provision inside these groups. This work analyses written and oral comments in a faculty writing group to determine how feedback progressed as meetings developed. Results indicate that participants sh...
This study examines the types of oral comments from a reviewer’s as well as an author’s perspective offered within an online writing group (OWG) that met during the confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose was to zoom in on the members’ interactions to have a broader perspective of how these exchanges could provide support through diff...
Una de las principales causas por las que no se culminan los estudios de posgrado es la dificultad para escribir la tesis. Esta problemática se acentúa aún más cuando los estudiantes cuentan con limitadas oportunidades de intercambios con compañeros y docentes de sus programas de posgrado hacia el final de sus estudios. Una práctica pedagógica que...
In writing groups (WGs), participants exchange drafts so that their partners' feedback can be used to improve writing. These groups accompany participants while they face authentic dissertation or publication writing projects, are linked to situated and real demands, and promote participants' engagement. Nevertheless, this type of pedagogical initi...
Este libro comunica hallazgos de investigaciones realizadas con el objetivo de reconocer y caracterizar prácticas de enseñanza que contribuyen en el mejoramiento de la escritura de tesis de posgrado en entornos de formación presencial y virtual, así como posibles articulaciones entre uno y otro escenario formativo.
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The study aims to explore and explain the affordances and constraints of two-mode virtual collaboration as experienced by a newly forming international research team.
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This is self-reflective and action-oriented research on the affordances and constraints of two-mode virtual collaboration. In the spirit of profes...
Resumen: En este ensayo, reflexionamos sobre algunas ideas claves para una pedagogía de la formación doctoral prestando especial atención a los otros que acompañan los aprendizajes del sujeto que se forma. Luego de presentar algunas generalidades sobre la formación doctoral hacemos foco en el papel clave que pueden tener los espacios que habilitan...
The article examines ‘in-text feedback’ and ‘overall feedback’ (KUMAR; STRACKE, 2007) on
dissertation chapter drafts as well as students’ opinion about giving and receiving feedback, both
before and after taking part in the peer revision activities proposed in an online dissertation writing
workshop. It used a mixed method approach. The comments we...
The article examines in-text comments and overall peer feedback to dissertation chapter drafts as well as students’ opinion about giving and receiving feedback, both before and after taking part in the peer revision activities proposed in an online dissertation writing workshop. As regards the in-text comments, with statistical significance, most o...
Scholarly publications are a key component of academics’ development in their roles as teachers and researchers. Writing groups seem to be effective to accompany this process as participants share their texts to improve them through peer feedback. To help academic developers in the understanding and implementation of faculty writing groups, a detai...
Resumen En las últimas décadas, los vínculos entre la escritura y el aprendizaje han sido ampliamente estudiados. En la enseñanza superior, en particular, los investigadores se han centrado en las producciones de los estudiantes, en sus puntos de vista respecto de la escritura en las diferentes disciplinas y en las complejas relaciones entre los co...
This study explores student perspectives about the challenges and affordances of participating in two dialogic teaching initiatives (writing group and writing workshop) implemented in Argentina to improve doctoral students' academic writing. It seeks to understand if these pedagogical initiatives can open, widen, and deepen dialogic spaces that, in...
Las publicaciones científicas, como el medio legitimado para producir y comunicar el conocimiento, comúnmente se utilizan para evaluar la producción individual de docentes investigadores y de sus universidades. En este contexto, las prácticas de escritura relacionadas con las publicaciones científicas ameritan mayor atención para su desarrollo. Sin...
Objetivo: Este trabajo analiza dos iniciativas didácticas basadas en la revisión entre pares y orientadas a la enseñanza-aprendizaje de la escritura de tesis a nivel de posgrado: un seminario virtual y grupos de escritura presenciales. Específicamente, indagamos las posibilidades y los desafíos asociados con las tareas de retroalimentación entre pa...
Peer response writing groups present several benefits in language learning classrooms. However, they are usually supervised by the instructor and thus become time consuming when carried out in class. This descriptive case study offers a model for extramural peer feedback and analyzes 12 meeting transcriptions of four undergraduate EFL writing group...
The objective of this work is to share an academic writing experience at the postgraduate level to bring to light the importance that peer groups and emotions play in the dissertation writing process. We consider that the bonds that are constructed in these groups improve academic writing since they offer emotional and academic support. Taking into...
At the university level, writing groups have shown to be useful to teach and learn research writing as well as to advance academic-scientific publication and to discover collaboration opportunities among members from different disciplinary fields. At the same time, peer review, an important practice in the academic sphere, is learned within the gro...
Resumen Los grupos de escritura consisten en comunidades de escritores que comparten sus borradores para recibir comentarios que permitan mejorar el texto. Estos parecen ser útiles para el aprendizaje de las prácticas letradas de escribir para publicar y para el avance de las publicaciones. Sin embargo, todavía no existe consenso sobre si los miemb...
p>Los grupos de escritura consisten en comunidades de escritores que comparten borradores para dar y recibir comentarios a fin de mejorar el texto. Estos han probado ser útiles para el aprendizaje de las prácticas letradas de escribir para publicar y para el avance de las publicaciones (McGrail, Rickard, & Jones, 2006; Colombo, 2013). Asimismo, dad...
Writing groups where authors get constructive feedback to improve their drafts are quite innovative in South America, especially for those not used to sharing their work in progress with academic readers, even more so when texts are produced in English as a second language. This paper presents the experience of a writing group in English which took...
En la mayoría de las universidades de Latinoamérica, a fin de acreditar sus programas doctorales, los estudiantes deben producir un trabajo escrito en el cual dan cuenta de su proceso investigativo: la tesis doctoral. La elaboración de este tipo de texto les implica aprender a participar de prácticas sociales y discursivas determinadas. Es decir, p...
Los círculos de escritura no son nuevos en el ámbito académico en países de habla inglesa. Sin embargo, estos sí presentan una idea novedosa en países en América Latina, especialmente en el ámbito de docentes investigadores no acostumbrados a compartir sus textos con otros docentes lectores. Aún más cuando los textos son escritos en inglés por doce...
En la actualidad, se espera que los futuros docentes de inglés no sólo satisfagan las demandas de escritura en esta lengua para culminar sus estudios en forma exitosa. También se aspira a que, una vez recibidos, continúen desarrollándose profesionalmente y contribuyan al campo disciplinar de la enseñanza del inglés como idioma extranjero mediante s...
http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2016v69n3p115
This study explored faculty conceptions about reading and writing, the student body, reasons for student low-performance as well as their declared teaching practices aimed at helping students to better understand readings and write academic texts. The objective was to understand what type of profes...
Writing groups -communities of writers that periodically gather to discuss drafts- are rare in Latin America. However, they are common in the Anglo-Saxon context, where they are used with pedagogical purposes. This paper reviews fifty publications and describes how these instructional initiatives work. Results indicate that writing groups improve g...
Los grupos de escritura –comunidades de escritores que se reúnen periódicamente para discutir borradores– son infrecuentes en Latinoamérica, aunque se han difundido en el medio anglosajón, donde se utilizan con fines pedagógicos. En este trabajo describimos su funcionamiento a partir del análisis de medio centenar de publicaciones. Según la bibliog...
The problem of low graduation rates at the graduate level has been linked to the challenges of dissertation work. Given that this is a process of "disciplinary enculturation", where graduate students acquire the ways of being and doing of each discipline, the social relations of doctoral candidates should be analyzed. Several studies have explored...
It is late at night, after working all day on my postdoctoral research I am trying to wind down while drawing and jotting down thoughts in my notebook. I am at the living room/office of my apartment in Buenos Aires, the city where I was born and left when I was 26 years old to pursue my graduate studies in the United States of America where for alm...
The issue of "types of texts assigned to university students" has been the object of several research projects; however, few of them focus on the graduate level. This particular project carried out an inquiry into the points of view of Master's and PhD students from diverse disciplines, through a survey in which 118 students participated. Results s...
This qualitative study explores the uses of reading and note-taking in two pre-service teacher training Social Sciences courses. Data analysis of in-depth interviews with professors and students, class observations and course materials suggested two polar teaching styles according to how bibliography was included in the course and the presence or a...
The use of the first language (L1) in the foreign language classroom has been highly contested in the last decades. This paper discusses the use of L1 in online activities in hybrid lower-level Spanish as a foreign language (SFL) courses, with a focus on threaded discussions about cultural topics. I first discuss the use of L1 in foreign language (...
Science today is mainly communicated through standard written academic English (SWAE). In this paper, I apply the postulations of Gramsci, Bourdieu and Canagarajah to show how domination structures are reproduced in scientific communication worldwide. I argue that these structures do not allow nondominant epistemologies and ways of producing and co...
