Online journals to improve the writing skills in the students of tenth grade at unidad educativa Walt Whitman. Salinas, province of Santa Elena. school year 2015-2016.

Abstract

The use of online journals for teaching English has increased in this digital era. This kind of tool is easy to manage and can be used for educational purposes in order to help educators teach English writing and improve it. Online journals have a lot of potential and good acceptance because they are innovative web tools 2.0 that encourage students to write every day in a modern way. By implementing free online journals such as blogger in the classroom, educators are capable of creating extra materials for their students according to the units seen in their textbooks, post summaries for students´ review and give online feedback to the whole class or individually. Furthermore, schoolchildren are able to perform assignments online at anytime and anywhere using a computer with internet service. Because this research is descriptive, qualitative methodology was selected. Interviews to the director and specialists, surveys and questionnaires to students were applied in order to gather valuable and reliable data for this research paper.