Collaborative work to enhance writing skill in english among students of 1st bgu at Unidad Educativa Salinas Innova in Salinas province of Santa Elena, school year 2017-2018.

Abstract

The present research paper had as a general objective to enhance the writing skill through the use of collaborative writing tools of students from first BGU classroom C at Unidad Educativa Salinas Innova. The 18 students of first BGU year who participated in this investigation had difficulties with the writing skill they did not know how to build simple sentences and therefore write a simple paragraph. This research used as a methodological process the qualitative and quantitative approach because these methods allowed obtaining important information about the context of the problem. The proposal which was applied at Unidad Educativa Salinas Innova was based in a collaborative writing tool called Google Drive with Google Docs, Google slides and Google sheet web tools that were used because they allowed to work online with text, presentations in real time synchronically without specific activities to enhance writing skills in English language. The results demonstrated the use of Google drive increased the motivation among students of 1st. BGU at Unidad Educativa Salinas Innova. During the assessment stage it could be seen an improvement of 32 % between the pre and post-test after having implemented the project. Besides the motivation was the most important fact that made the students to stay connected and working all together under the instructor’s supervision.