The Written Competence of Spanish Secondary Education Students in Bilingual and Non-­Bilingual Programs Lahuerta Martínez, Ana Cristina Writing Fluency Accurcy Complexity Bilingual program Escritura Fluidez Precisión Complejidad Programa bilingüe The present study compares bilingual and non-bilingual program students L2 written competence. Three hundred and ninety-three secondary education students participated in the study. The results obtained show that:(a) there are significant differences in written competence between the bilingual and the non-bilingual program groups, with the bilingual program group outperforming the non-bilingual program group;(b) the four measures used to assess writing (fluency, accuracy, lexical and grammatical complexity) develop in tandem;(c) bilingual programs may help to diminish the differences observed in favour of female students when learning a foreign language; and (d) there are significant relationships between all the writing measures studied. Este estudio compara l competencia escrita en una lengua no nativa de estudiantes de programas bilingües y no bilingües. Un total de 393 estudiantes de educación secundaria obligatoria participaron en el estudio. Los resultados muestran que: (a) existe una diferencia significativa entre los grupos bilingüe y no bilingüe, a favor de los primeros: (b) las cuatro medidas utilizadas para evaluar la escritura (fluidez, precisión, complejidad gramatical y léxica) se desarrollan en paralelo (c) los programas bilingües pueden ayudar a disminuir las diferencias a favor de las mujeres en el aprendizaje de una lengua extranjera; (d) se obtienen relaciones significativas entre todas las medidas utilizadas. 2018-11-16T09:21:56Z 2018-11-16T09:21:56Z 2015-06 journal article Lahuerta Martínez, Ana Cristina. The Written Competence of Spanish Secondary Education Students in Bilingual and Non-­Bilingual Programs. Porta Linguarum, 24: 74-61 (2015). [ http://hdl.handle.net/10481/53796] 1697-7467 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/53796 10.30827/Digibug.53796 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ open access Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España Universidad de Granada