Academic blog to promote the english writing practice with students of first year at “Vicente León” secondary school during the academic cycle april - august 2016

Abstract

This research was developed due to the deficiency in teaching writing English with students of first secondary education at ““Vicente León”" in Latacunga city this research offers an academic blog as a tool for promoting the learning in an easy way and improve writing skills in the teaching learning process. At the same time, the participation of all students achieved so that they can socialize and meet new topics related to writing the teacher of English would publish. Therefore, the most important point of this work is to contribute with an academic blog based on writing strategies such as writing prewriting and revising in order to determine the importance of using blogs to promote the practice of academic writing in English. In this research was applied a survey of eight questions for students and teachers in order to know their opinions and knowledge of using a blog to improve writing skill. With the analysis of the surveys was possible to obtain general conclusions about the benefits of an academic blog that contribute to the development of writing skills….