Developing writing skills in esl students through urban tales

Abstract

As methodologies used actually in high schools where the professor is the center of the activities and the classroom work, I chose the Clil approach; as an alternative for developing the writing skill in the students within the academic places and procedures, having as a base the constructivism for a human learning and the action research with the observation in order to analyzing the work with the learners. All this research was implemented with students from 8TH, 9TH grades in Bogotá, Colombia. The results show and indicate when the professor uses the Clil approach for teaching the way in that the learners should write their urban tails the information, the concepts, the topic is understood complete well, the population inside of the classroom feel comfortable, sure of their new knowledge and classes are enjoyable as well. This work had some stages for being implement, pre-production stage, the early production stage, and in that way the final extending production stage, where the students had to write their compositions about their neighborhoods realities and fiction trough narratives.