miércoles, 9 de marzo de 2016

Week 8 Online Tools for the Improvement of Students Writing Competences.

By Vanesa Paniagua
Article: Online Collaborative Writing Using Wikis.
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Learning English sometimes could be a pain in some students since they face problems with writing skill because as we know when pronouncing English it is totally different as it is written and for this reason, second language learners need to be careful with this.

Moreover, the information that was presented in the article for this week  was king of interesting, since it is focused in the writing skill while using technology and the tool that they mentioned was “Wiki”, which is a website where anyone can edit anything anytime that it is necessary.  Beside, wikis are useful for students to practice and develop writing by creating books report, poetry, class blogs, short stories, and others.


Therefore, Wiki it is a great tool to practice online writing as it is showed in the article, which was focused in a writing lesson and students needed to create a collaborative writing by using different prompts related with school, and this article was required to pass  through many stages like to revise carefully each paragraph to then publish it. In my opinion, it is a good idea to design wiki writing projects because promotes the use of technology and the improvement of students'  writing competences.

1 comentario:

  1. Hi Vane,I agree with you in some points that you made in the topic for this week. the firs one when you said that pronounce a word is not he same that write the word, this problem occour when learners start learnig a new language. So as a teacher we need to be careful with this problem clariying to our studets that is not the same.
    Now, talking about the new tool tahi is Wiki, there the students can edit everytime that can be required for example if is in a paragrap.Wiki is an excellent tool for students to edit, to practice drafting, rewriting and proofreading. Finally. we can say that Wiki is a new way for students to express ideas in writing skill and improvet it online.

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