Estrategias de síntesis escrita en inglés como l2

Abstract

The study examined strategies for written synthesis of various sources employed by experienced readers/writers in English as a foreign language. Think-aloud protocols were collected as fifteen subjects read several texts on the same topic and then wrote a synthesis. In a subsequent (recorded) interview, the subjects answered a semi-structured questionnaire aimed at discovering more about strategy use for written synthesis. Data sources were constituted by transcriptions of the think-alouds and interviews as well as the written syntheses, both in rough copies and final versions. Fifteen strategies were identified and described. Frequency of strategy used per subject and category was also measured