3.11 Tesis magíster

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    Exploring the effects of a mixed writing feedback model integrating artificial intelligence on primary learners english graphophonemic awareness
    (2023) Pearsall, Charlotte Rose; Lobos Vásquez, Leyla; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Facultad de Letras
    This mixed-methods action research project aimed to improve graphophonemic awareness through a mixed writing feedback model in second-grade English students within a multilingual classroom at an international school in Santiago, Chile. The reasons for the students' lack of graphophonemic awareness includes the mix of first languages and issues during early literacy acquisition during the pandemic in online classes. Students took pre-tests and post-tests and over two intervention cycles, students composed spontaneous texts, which received writing corrective feedback from their peers, teacher, and artificial intelligence. The study's outcomes demonstrated that a mixed writing feedback model improved students' graphophonemic awareness, increased writing motivation, and improved students’ self-perceptions of spelling competence. Additionally, the study revealed that while spelling errors vary among first language groups, the ə/, /ɪ/, and /eɪ/ phonemes present the most challenging sounds for students when spelling.
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    Reading to learn cycle : writing narrative texts in the EFL Chilean context
    (2022) Lorca Mesina, Stephanie A.; Arancibia Aguilera, María Cristina; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Facultad de Letras
    Throughout life, reading and writing are fundamental skills in our learning process. They help us to communicate, create relationships, and describe the world around us. In this context, the EFL classroom represents its own challenges and opportunities. The current educational model in Chile has caused a deep segregation in terms of access to education, so English proficiency has been recognized as a social-economic indicator. Marginalized Spanish-speaking groups avoid reading and writing due to their complexity. The Reading to Learn model proposes that there is a systematic cycle that could help EFL learners to explicitly construct their own texts, unveiling the historically hidden conventions when it comes to writing. The following action research study aims to evaluate the effects of Reading to Learn methodology to help high school students to improve their writing of narrative texts by recognizing genre and the infinite combinations to express meaning that the system offers to language users. This research was carried out in virtual learning and the pedagogical intervention was designed considering quantitative and qualitative data. It consisted of initial surveys for teachers and students, a pre-test, seven action-research cycles, a post-test, and a final survey for participants. The main qualitative findings suggest that the Reading to Learn methodology helps to improve writing in terms of lexicogrammatical choices that convey attitude and refer the participation of people and things in discourse. Similarly, the main quantitative findings indicate that participants enhanced their genre-knowledge including more phases and structures of the narrative genre after the interventions. Keywords. Reading to Learn, narrative text, writing, action-research, EFL.