Medición De La Fluidez En La Escritura Colaborativa E Individual En El Idioma Inglés

Abstract

This paper focuses on determining whether the fluency in collaborative writing, taking into account the total number of written words, is greater than the total number of words written individually. The study method used a quantitative data analysis. The participants in this research were 33 students of the third level of English of a public university in Ecuador. The instruments used to collect the data were the essays written by the students, as well as a questionnaire with closed questions. The level of satisfaction was measured using Google Docs as a collaborative writing tool. The results of the measurements showed that there were a significant number of words, clauses, and sentences in the collaborative trials when compared to the essays written individually. In the same way, the results of the questionnaire showed that most of the students stated that the use of collaborative tool has a significant positive impact on them.