CÓMO PLANIFICAN LAS TAREAS DE ESCRITURA ESTUDIANTES UNIVERSITARIOS ESPAÑOLES

This article presents the results of a study on the written expression of Spanish university students (future teachers). The main objective was to analyze the students' process of planning their writing, in order to discover their skills and identify their limitations. The study is qualitative (a case study) in which the "cognitive interview" was used to obtain data and "content analysis" was employed to interpret the data. The results reveal that these students have limited knowledge of the operations included in the process of planning writing; the cognitive operations in which the interviewees encounter greatest difficulties are the recording of ideas, in the first place, followed by the organization of ideas. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]