Os efeitos do planejamento do uso dos tempos do passsado na escrita de narrativa em segunda língua<br>The effects of planning on the use of past tenses in second language narrative writing<br>Los efectos del planeamiento del uso de los tiempos del...

Abstract

This paper presents an empirical study of the effects of planning on accuracy in the use of past tenses in second language narrative writing. Based on Ellis & Yuan’s study (2004) that analyzed the effects of planning on fluency, complexity and accuracy in second language narrative writing , this article reports a study of the effect of two types of planning conditions (pretask planning and no planning) on 12 twelve Brazilian learners’ written narratives elicited by means of a movie scene. The results indicate that pretask planning has some effect on the accurate use of past tenses, differing from the results obtained in the previous study.