Resumen

GALLEGO-ORTEGA, José Luis; GARCIA-GUZMAN, Antonio  y  RODRIGUEZ-FUENTES, Antonio. How Spanish University Students Plan Writing Tasks. RMIE [online]. 2013, vol.18, n.57, pp.599-623. ISSN 1405-6666.

This article presents the results of a study on the written expression of Spanish university students (future teachers). The main objective was to analyze the students' process of planning their writing, in order to discover their skills and identify their limitations. The study is qualitative (a case study) in which the "cognitive interview" was used to obtain data and "content analysis" was em-ployed to interpret the data. The results reveal that these students have limited knowledge of the operations included in the process of planning writing; the cognitive operations in which the interviewees encounter greatest difficulties are the recording of ideas, in the first place, followed by the organization of ideas.

Palabras llave : written communication; students; higher education; case study; Spain.