Importancia de la aplicación de modelos de integración tecnológica en las prácticas de redacción académica en inglés en Educación Superior.

Abstract

Academic writing practices are important in Higher Education because they help English student teachers to improve their language skills for future research, and they learn the main parts of different types of academic texts that will be taught along their professional experience with elementary and secondary students. Nowadays, the academic writing practices are benefited from a correct technology integration planning with the purpose of improving the comprehension of the concepts and structures of the different types of texts that every teacher must be capable of elaborating. This research project was done with the aim of describing how teachers integrate digital tools in their students’ academic writing practices. To achieve that aim, this study was designed as descriptive, not experimental, and exploratory; data was gathered through questionnaires answered by teachers and students and from class observations in three universities in Guayaquil; the information was analyzed using a qualitative approach. After the data analysis, it was found that teachers do not know much information about technology integration frameworks and there is a scarce use of digital tools in the Academic Writing practices.