Social networks as an interactive tool to develop writing skills in A1 High School Students

Abstract

The research is based on a teaching-learning proposal using Social Networks to improve writing skills in High School students so they can get an A1 level of proficiency in the area. Students consider that repetitive writing of letters or descriptions is not the best way to practice writing, because they are not interested in the topics presented. Social networks, on the other hand, have become part of our students’ lives and it is impossible to speak of young people without discussing the influence of these platforms in their lives. To do this research, have been compiled a lot of academic papers and proposals that show the advantages of having social networks as part of lesson plans; after this, several activities and lesson plans were created as the final product of the proposal. The results were positive and the importance benefits of social network to develop writing skills in students were proved the proposal was structure with activities used as main tool social networks.