Analysis of the use of discursive connectors in written argumentation in students of basic education
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This article shows the result of an investigation that analyzes which discursive connectors are used by students of basic education to justify their points of view and debate the opposite position as well as how they do it. The objective was to know the initial stage of their language ability to guide the design of teaching activities by doing applied research with new didactic strategies. In the diagnostic phase, a fictitious case was designed from a controversial and close situation to the students in order to get their opinion. 114 texts were evaluated with a control table that allowed us to compare how connectors are used by the students. Results indicate that the connectors most widely used were porque (because), para que (so that), pero (but), and por eso (that is why). At the same time, it was identified that non-conventional uses are in function because of lack of grammatical knowledge and not knowing about the subject matter which would allow students to construct pragmatically correct links between the sentences.
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