Creating a situated diary through multimodal texts : a genre based approach.

Abstract

This document displays a proposal of pedagogic and didactic innovation in which creating a diary supported by multimodal texts based on current events attempts to promote writing skills as a situated practice. This proposal aims to be developed with a group of ninth-grade students in a public school in Colombia. During the characterization of the target population, it was found that students of ninth grade, mostly adolescents, need a situated learning environment that fosters interaction in writing activities. Consequently, the main objective of this proposal is for students to create a socially situated diary through the implementation of multimodal texts. Thus, three cycles of intervention framed in the principles of genre-based approach were designed to be implemented through 15 classes of 60 minutes each. Over the course of the classes, students are addressed with the material and the activities that serve as support for students to express opinions, feelings, and perspectives from a situated written experience.