Abstract

ALVAREZ, Guadalupe  and  DIFABIO DE ANGLAT, Hilda. La actividad metalingüística en espacios de interacción entre pares: reflexiones en torno a un taller virtual orientado a la escritura de la tesis de posgrado. Perfiles educativos [online]. 2017, vol.39, n.155, pp.51-67. ISSN 0185-2698.

This article analyzes metalinguistic activity in spaces generated for group interaction, such as a blog for an online workshop oriented toward developing conceptual and writing strategies at the graduate level. This workshop was designed as an action research that, in a cyclical manner, diagnoses problems linked to academic writing, in order to generate didactic proposals aimed at overcoming the difficulties identified. Participating in the first cycle presented were two research professors and a group of 11 doctoral students (9 women and two men) in education sciences and other social sciences at a number of universities in Argentina. Analysis of this first cycle has indicated that work in peer groups complements and deepens the process of metalinguistic reflection on graduate-level theses, and that this group interaction does not appear to be generated spontaneously but rather on the basis of specific didactic indications.

Keywords : Writing; Metalinguistics; Graduate studies; Virtual environments; Teaching strategies.