La lectura de las producciones escritas y su importancia en la enseñanza de lengua extranjera

Résumé

Didactic importance of the teacher’reading attitude in the assessment of student’s written production- a study on student’s selectivity exams – Students’writing production has teacher correctors as final addresees. Therefore, this teacher’s reading of student’s written essays presents some pragmatic characteristics that deteriorate the natural reading process: a mutual collaboration for the transmission of a content message. In this failed act of written communication, on one side, we have the “productor” or student interested in obtaining the best mark with the least risk: no originality and abundant use of fixed and automatized organizers of the discourse, and, on the other side, the receptor, or teacher, whose main and only contribution is to judge the formal correction of the produced text. Even when a certain “exchange” is produced, it doesn’t exist a “true cooperation”, as basic foundation of any communicative act. Therefore, from the analysis of an important corpus on student’s “selectivity exams” realized in the UCO, I maintain that there is an urgent need of revaluing this assessment process in order to keep the essential condition of the written communication: A share understanding of the message. This assessment improvement might awake student’s interest in developing writing skills, in the certainity that his/her essays are going to be “completed” by the teacher’s world knowledge and positive attitude and not just sanctioned by his/her formal mistakes.