%0 Journal Article 
%A Mateo Cutillas, Nereida
%T Teaching writing in the primary school
%D 2016
%@ 1989-0796
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/30327
%X Competence in written English is widely recognized as an important skill for topics related to business, education
and personal relationships. Teaching writing is fast becoming more and more important in learning today. The
present study was intended as an attempt to explore whether Anita Pincas’ teaching method for writing enables
Spanish primary school children to improve their writing skill in English. This study was conducted with two groups
of sixth year Spanish children who were divided as follows: i) making them use the teaching writing method
(experimental group) and ii) without the method (control group). The first group was trained by means of a 4-lesson
intervention programme following the main phases that Anita Pincas proposes. To examine the effects of this
method, one pre-test and one post-test were given to the children of each group to check their differences and
evaluate their improvement through comparing the errors made. Results indicated that the children of both groups
improved their writing skill, although this was especially significant in the experimental group concerning writing
structure. Therefore, it can be concluded that Anita Pincas’ method positively influenced the progress of
schoolchildren's writing skills.

%K Anita Pincas’ method
%K Written errors
%K Pre-test & post-test design
%K Primary Education
%K Expresión escrita en EFL
%K Método de Anita Pincas
%K Errores escritos
%K Diseño pre-test/post-test
%K Educación Primaria
%K EFL writing
%K Filología
%K Philology
%K Humanidades
%K Humanities
%~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala