The role of grammar in learning to write: An interview with Joaquim Dolz and Carmen Rodríguez-Gonzalo, experts in writing didactics

Abstract

Joaquim Dolz holds a PhD in Educational Sciences and is Professor of Language Teaching at the Uni-versity of Geneva (Switzerland). His research ranges from analysis of the teaching and learning process to teacher training. His work includes studies on the teaching of oral and written language, textual gen-res, and instructional sequences. Carmen Rodríguez-Gonzalo holds a PhD in Lan-guage Education and is a former teacher in Language Arts at Secondary Education. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Language and Litera-ture Didactics at the University of Valencia (Spain). Her research focuses on the relationships between use and reflection on language, especially in the teaching of written language.

Keywords

• Congram19
• Grammar
• Writing
• L1 teaching and learning
• Linguistics