Enhancing writing engagement in the EFL context: Social media intervention using instagram
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This article presents a perspective on how Instagram was used as a pedagogical tool to enhance a group of Chilean students’ engagement in EFL writing. This qualitative study involved a sample of eight third-year students from a higher education institution in Chile. The data were obtained through a pre and post intervention tests together with an analytic rubric, two Likert scales and a focus group. The results showed that there was a significant difference between the participants‘ pre and post intervention tests scores. The findings highlighted the positive impact of Instagram on the different writing engagement dimensions: affective, behavioral, cognitive and social dimensions. Therefore, teachers may consider incorporating Instagram, as an effective pedagogical tool, into their teaching strategies to create more enjoyable and relevant tasks to enhance the students‘ level of writing engagement in more contextualized communicative situations which can be significant for them.
Este artículo presenta una perspectiva del uso de Instagram como una herramienta pedagógica para mejorar el engagement de un grupo de estudiantes chilenos en la escritura del inglés como lengua extranjera en Chile. Este estudio cualitativo involucró una muestra de ocho estudiantes de tercer año de una institución de educación superior en Chile. Los datos se obtuvieron a través de pruebas de intervención pre y post, junto con una rúbrica analítica, dos escalas Likert y un grupo focal. Los resultados mostraron una diferencia significativa entre los puntajes de los participantes en las pruebas de intervención pre y post. Además, los hallazgos resaltaron que Instagram tuvo un impacto positivo en las diferentes dimensiones del engagement en la escritura. Es decir, dimensiones afectivas, conductuales, cognitivas y sociales. Por lo tanto, los profesores pueden considerar la incorporación de Instagram, como una herramienta pedagógica efectiva, en sus estrategias de enseñanza para crear actividades más entretenidas y relevantes que mejoren el nivel del engagement en la escritura de los estudiantes con situaciones comunicativas más contextualizadas y que puedan ser significativas para ellos.
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