Analysis of productions written by a sample of Mexican students of First Grade of Secondary School
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The objective of the study was to analyze the characteristics of two types of text, written by Mexican first-grade high school students. 150 students participated, 75 enrolled in a public school and 75 enrolled in a private school, who were asked to write a free topic text. In addition, they were presented with a text that contained spelling and syntactic errors, asking them to check it and rewrite it without errors. The texts were analyzed based on a checklist, which included 18 different types of errors, grouped into three categories: syntax, spelling and writing. The data were analyzed by means of an ANOVA, showing that the private school students made more errors in their free texts, while the public school students presented more mistakes when reworking the texts that contained errors. The implications of these findings are discussed.