Thirteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

This paper describes the process required to conduct a qualitative data analysis using a widely known research technique, content analysis, which has the purpose of extracting the relevant information from the text subsuming it to categories and storing it separately for further processing, in a study that analyses the written competence in English second language of Spanish upper secondary students. To this end, this paper explores and describes the different steps taken in the analysis process in order to create the system of categories: categorizing the information into codes, identifying the patterns and relations within and between categories, and the validation of the design of the system of categories.