Session

Education and Development

Description

Nowadays, technology has become one of the most dominant factors that assist second language learning and teaching process. Thus, its use has become widely spread in classroom settings as it provides a stimulant, interactive and creative learning environment. Particularly, the expansion of technology has brought significant improvements in students’ writing skills. Hence, the main aim of this paper is to explain computers’ impact on students writing, that is to say, how computers assist students in creating more concise and qualitative texts. In order to prove my hypothesis, an experiment was carried out with two groups of first year students, at the South East European University in Macedonia, during a period of one semester. One group of students used computers in their writing process and the other group was exposed to traditional paper and pencil writing by having the teacher as the only source of instruction. The results indicated that students who used computers in their writing process made less spelling and grammar mistakes and made more revisions. In addition, their writings were longer and better organized. Also, by the end of the experiment, students using computers in their writings had a more positive attitude towards writing, in general.

Keywords:

computers, writing skills, word processing, technology

Session Chair

Silvishah Miftari Goodspeed

Session Co-Chair

Halil Bashota

Proceedings Editor

Edmond Hajrizi

ISBN

978-9951-437-69-1

Location

Pristina, Kosovo

Start Date

27-10-2018 1:30 PM

End Date

27-10-2018 3:00 PM

DOI

10.33107/ubt-ic.2018.121

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Computers’ impact on students’ writing skills

Pristina, Kosovo

Nowadays, technology has become one of the most dominant factors that assist second language learning and teaching process. Thus, its use has become widely spread in classroom settings as it provides a stimulant, interactive and creative learning environment. Particularly, the expansion of technology has brought significant improvements in students’ writing skills. Hence, the main aim of this paper is to explain computers’ impact on students writing, that is to say, how computers assist students in creating more concise and qualitative texts. In order to prove my hypothesis, an experiment was carried out with two groups of first year students, at the South East European University in Macedonia, during a period of one semester. One group of students used computers in their writing process and the other group was exposed to traditional paper and pencil writing by having the teacher as the only source of instruction. The results indicated that students who used computers in their writing process made less spelling and grammar mistakes and made more revisions. In addition, their writings were longer and better organized. Also, by the end of the experiment, students using computers in their writings had a more positive attitude towards writing, in general.