The competence of written production of academic texts in students of the third grade, secondary level, professional Technical Lyceum Cristo Rey

Abstract

The development of written production, as a communicative competence, is a slow, complex process, of constant exercise and a necessary understanding of the importance of the process on the product, at least during secondary school learning when the foundations of academic texts. The research produced a diagnosis of written production in 27 3rd grade students, in the first cycle of secondary school of the Cristo Rey Professional Technical High School, Educational District 01-03, Barahona, during the 2022-2023 school year. Quantitative research, transectional non-experimental field design with observation technique and checklist instrument were applied to two functional texts (expository article and experiment report). The results guide the design of a teaching and learning strategy, from Project-Based Learning as pertinent to the intention of pedagogical intervention for the improvement of the needs in the production of the two types of texts and consistent with the approach by competencies and integrated curriculum of the MINERD (2016).