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Call to publish scientific articles that will be received between June 20 and November 20, 2019, referring to:

University Pedagogy: With topics such as public policies in higher education, legislative system and reforms, academic programs, comparative policies, massification processes, quality assurance, legal professions, and others in higher education as a general field, referring to the Chilean and international context .

Didactics of Law: With topics whose centrality is related to processes of innovation, learning, curriculum, innovations, teaching experiences, students and teachers characterization , among others in legal education in the Chilean and international context.

Ethical and citation standards (Chicago-deusto) must be taken care of, in addition to the originality of the research or innovation.

Metacognitive awareness in the writing of legal claims: strategies and representations around legal writing

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Abstract

The objective of this study is to describe metacognitive awareness in the academic writing of claims in Law. The methodology corresponds to a qualitative multiple case study, with a sample of five students from the Law degree at the Universidad Católica de Chile. First, a semi-structured interview was conducted to determine the strategies declared by the students when writing demands. Subsequently, the writing of a demand by each student was recorded with the Camtasia program. From this, a comparison was made between the declared strategies and those actually carried out to establish the level of consciousness of the subjects. Among the results, it was obtained that students who had greater awareness had a higher grade than students who were less aware of what they were doing, which was closely related to the strategies that were explicitly taught in classes versus those that were not. Thus, the need for interdisciplinary teaching is proposed, in which there is joint work between the disciplinary teacher and the writing teacher, in order to explain in detail to students the functioning of the production processes when writing legal texts.

Keywords:

Legal pedagogy, academic writing, legal education, metacognitive awareness, writing representation.

Author Biography

karen Urrejola Corales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Karen Urrejola Corales holds a PhD in Linguistics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, a Master's degree in Linguistics, and a degree in Hispanic Literature with a major in Literature and Linguistics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. She is also an academic and researcher at the Faculty of Literature of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Her email address is kuc@uc.cl. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7518-3428.