Practicing your English writing skills in a community learning through an Edublog La práctica de la escritura en la lengua inglesa en una comunidad de aprendizaje a través de un blog educativo Sarah Arseguet Crisol 1 y María Luisa Renau 2 Resumen:En esta investigación, combinamos la competencia digital, en este caso el uso de un blog y la competencia cultural con el fin de practicar las habilidades de escritura. A través del blog queremos cuestionar los métodos tradicionales de enseñanza como la teoría del desarrollo social de Vygotsky y se propone un cambio de roles. Los estudiantes ya no escriben sólo para el profesor, sino también para sus compañeros de clase e incluso para cualquier persona que lee el blog. Además, no sólo el profesor da retroalimentación a ellos, sino también sus compañeros de clase. Los resultados muestran que los estudiantes disfrutaron de este cambio de roles. Esta investigación se divide en una introducción de la interacción social de blogs educativos para comprender mejor lo que significa, el método con la explicación de la unidad didáctica y del blog, los resultados y la discusión indican que los estudiantes prefieren trabajar con el blog que con los materiales tradicionales, el uso del blog de practicar las habilidades de escritura motiva a los estudiantes a aprender y la eficacia de la utilización del blog en el aula para crear una comunidad de aprendizaje. Palabras claves: competencia comunicativa, material educativo, destreza de la escritura en inglés y educación secundaria. Abstract:In this research, we combine digital competence, in this case the use of a blog and cultural competence in order to practice the writing skills. Through the blog we want to challenge the traditional teaching methods as Vygotsky' social development theory and we propose a change of roles. Students do not write anymore only for the teacher, but also for their classmates and even for anyone who reads the blog. In addition, not only the teacher gives feedback to them as well as their classmates. Results show that students enjoyed this change of roles and find it interesting and motivating. This research is divided in an introduction from social interaction to Edublogs to understand better what it means. In the method section, we explain the didactic unit and the blog. The results and discussion indicate that students prefer not only working with the blog than with traditional materials, but using the blog to practice the writing skills motivates students to learn. Finally, we show the efficacy of using the blog in the classroom to create a community of learning.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">In this research, we combine digital competence, in this case the use of a blog and cultural competence in order to practice the writing skills. Through the blog we want to challenge the traditional teaching methods as Vygotsky’ social development theory and we propose a change of roles. Students do not write anymore only for the teacher, but also for their classmates and even for anyone who reads the blog. In addition, not only the teacher gives feedback to them as well as their classmates. Results show that students enjoyed this change of roles and find it interesting and motivating. This research is divided in an introduction from social interaction to Edublogs to understand better what it means. In the method section, we explain the didactic unit and the blog. The results and discussion indicate that students prefer not only working with the blog than with traditional materials, but using the blog to practice the writing skills motivates students to learn. Finally, we show the efficacy of using the blog in the classroom to create a community of learning.</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p>