WRITTEN EXPRESSION SKILLS IN STUDENTS OF A LEVELING COURSE: CASE STUDY UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA DE MANABÍ

Abstract

This paper presents a study carried out at Universidad Técnica de Manabí (UTM) about insufficient skills that university students show when facing writing as a process of competence and performance, a current and relevant topic for higher education. To do this, the pretended goal was to diagnose the current situation about the development of written expression skills of students enrolled in an online leveling course at the social work career. A mixed methodological approach was adopted for the development of a field study with a non-experimental cross-sectional design. The sample was made up of an academic coordinator, four educators who taught a subject called Personal Development and 35 students who represented 100 %, 80 % and 25 % of the study population, respectively. The main results showed theoretical, methodological and practical insufficiencies about the training of teachers to address writing activities during the teaching and learning process, which have negatively affected the current situation about the development of written expression. highlighting that, seven out of nine indicators from the two dimensions that comprise it showed a less favorable development in 77.8% of the students