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    Blogs and the writing skill development
    (2021-04-01) Gallegos Gallegos, Karina Ximena; Chicaiza Redín, Verónica Elizabeth
    This research work's objective was to analyze the impact of blogs on the development of writing skills in the English language. The participants were 67 students belonging to the third year of Baccalaureate from “Rodríguez Albornoz” High School. The methodology used had a quantitative approach, with a quasi-experimental design since two groups were the study subject; one control and one experimental. In addition, a pre-test was applied to determine the level of competence in writing skills of both groups. It was assessed by means of a rubric that contained five writing sub-skills such as content & creativity, organization, punctuation & spelling, language and style. In the same way, the intervention was performed, in which the use of blogs was incorporated with the experimental group for eight weeks. Therefore, each week the students who took part in the experiment had to publish a blog with the assigned topic. Furthermore, there was one week in which the students were introduced on the use of blogs, their creation and the writing process as well as the structure of articles. Likewise, before the publication of each blog, various activities were carried out for the students to become familiar with the topic; such as, brainstorming, reading articles, taking notes about videos or conversations, discussions, summaries, etc. In addition, guiding questions were provided so that students can write their blog without any difficulty. Subsequently, the post-test was applied for both groups. The data obtained in the pre and post-test were analyzed through T-student. The pre-test results revealed that the students in the control and experimental groups had a low level of writing skills. However, after the intervention with blogs; the students in the experimental group showed a remarkable improvement in the development of written skills. Therefore, the impact of blogging on students' writing ability was demonstrated
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    Online forums and the writing skill development in students of third year of B.G.U. at "Augusto N. Martínez" High School from Ambato city, Tungurahua province
    (Universidad Tècnica de Ambato.Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y de la Educaciòn.Carrera de Idiomas, 2018-03-01) Gallegos Gallegos, Karina Ximena; Encalada Trujillo, Edgar Guadia
    The objective of this research was to expose the influence that online forums have on the writing skill development of third-year students of B.G.U. at “Augusto N. Martínez” High School. The data was obtained through surveys, the results were analyzed both graphically and in numerical tables. The quantitative and qualitative methodologies were applied in this process and the Chi square table was used to check the information. Through this process, it was concluded that the use of online forums would have a positive effect on the writing skill development since most of the respondents think that the use of technology, specifically online forums, bring many benefits to the English class. Moreover, the use of online forums allows students to develop more complex sentences, acquire a higher level of vocabulary and improve their reading skills; which enables them to write complete ideas and to have an effective written work