Specific Methods of Improving Writing Competence of Students Using Wiki Technology

Abstract

Introduction: The study examines the specific methods that can be considered to improve writing competence of students using wiki technology. The literature in the past has demonstrated that wiki technology has been approved to enhance writing skills of the learners. Several studies have portrayed wiki technology as an environment that creates interaction among the learners and opportunity to have autonomous and authentic oversight on their writing skills through various tasks. Methods: A quantitative method has been applied in the study to understand in a confirmatory way the relationship between wiki technology strategies and improved writing competencies of students. In context of this relationship, the study is going to produce a model that can be considered to have a checklist of the specific methods that can be invoked towards the improvement of writing competence of students using wikitechnology. Results: The results confirmed the hypothesis that there exist predictive effects of specific methods linked to wiki technology on writing proficiencies of the students. The model results have confirmed the suitability of the identified methods especially collaborative learning environment, technology and digitalization, interactive dynamic communication, interpersonal information exchange, peer review correction, and interactive learning environment. Discussions: The findings corroborated with past studies especially on the criteria for collaborative learning environment, authentic learning experience, and interpersonal information exchange to have significant relationship with writing competencies in the perspective of quality, accuracy, diction, grammar, and coherence. Conclusion: The need to invest on wiki technology is something commendable for the foreign language department at the Tashkent University of Information Technologies named after Muhammad Al-Khwarizmi.