Implementation of activities in the schoolrack platform for the improvement of english writing skills to the students of eighth grade at escuela de educación básica Trece de Abril La Libertad, province of Santa Elena, 2015-2016.

Abstract

Nowadays, in a technological era, the use of computers and software is well-known for people of all ages. in education, the use of technological resources has become a necessity; platforms are an innovative form to improve the teachinglearning process. there is a variety of platforms, such as, moodle, edmodo, blackboard, and others, but this investigative project focuses on the implementation of activities in the schoolrack platform. this proposal attempts to achieve some objectives but the most important is to improve the english writing skill of the students of eighth grade at escuela de educación básica Trece de Abril, La Libertad, province of Santa Elena through the implementation of writing activities in the educational platform previously mentioned. moreover, the development of this research attempts to involve teacher and students in a digitalized learning environment. this educative platform offers diverse benefits for teachers and for students as well: teachers can send homework and interact with their students in order to reinforce the English writing skill. english teacher can use schoolrack platform to reinforce classes. In this platform, students can work on different exercises (uploaded in the dashboard of this platform) for the constant practice of their writing ability. additionally, schoolrack platform provides students the opportunity to upload their writing assignments promoting a virtual and didactic learning. finally, this investigation applied different methods, such as, deductive-inductive, qualitative, quantitative, but the application of the scientific method guaranteed the feasibility of this work. Therefore, following the steps that a scientific research needs, it was possible to demonstrate a significant improvement in the students’ writing proficiency.