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A Mixed Methods Research  \nMª Cruz Sánchez-Gómez  \n[mcsago@usal.es](mcsago@usal.es)  \nUniversity of Salamanca, Spain  \nAna Mª Pinto-Llorente  \n[ampintoll@usal.es](ampintoll@usal.es)  \nUniversity of Salamanca, Spain  \nFrancisco José García-Peñalvo  \n[fgarcia@usal.es](fgarcia@usal.es)  \nUniversity of Salamanca, Spain  \nAbstract  \nIn the field of teaching a second language (L2), technology has always occupied a relevant position . The development of new technological tools has allowed the convergence of two learning environments, traditional face-to-face learning and virtual learning. This convergence has fostered the advantages of both types of instructions and the possibilities to learn a L2 . In this study, researchers tried to explore pre-service teachers’ perspectives towards the use of wikis and discussion boards to improve writing skills in English and promote autonomous and collaborative learning in a B-learning environment. 358 preservice teachers participated in the study in which a mixed methods research approach was adopted to integrate results and have a broader vision of the phenomenon . The results suggested pre-service teachers’ positive perception of the e-activities developed to improve the quality of their English, feeling more confidence in that language . They highlighted the opportunities afforded by wikis to create collective texts based on their agreements and individual contributions that promoted individual and cooperative learning, and by discussion boards to communicate, solve problems, get consensus or support a dynamic process . The fact of using a mixed methods research approach enhanced the validity and reliability of data, and added rigor to the study.  \nKeywords  \nB-learning environment; Mixed Methods Research; Discussion Boards; Wiki-Based Tasks English as L2  \nM.C. Sánchez-Gómez, A.M.Pinto-Llorente & F.J. García-Peñalvo  \nDigital Education Review-Number 32, Dexember 2017-[http://greav.ub.edu/der/](http://greav.ub.edu/der/ 35)[ 35](http://greav.ub.edu/der/ 35)  \nI. Introduction  \nThe current research is the result of an interdisciplinary project, which addressed two important fields . On the one hand, the process of learning, practicing and improving English as a second language, specifically the skills that referred to writing and reading. And, on the other hand, the Blearning modality, as the kind of approach that responds to the educational demands of the present knowledge society, and the asynchonous technological tools (wiki and discussion boards) provided by Moodle .  \nThe purpose of teaching English as a second language (L2) is to provide learners with the necessary skills to carry out an adequate communication . Usó & Martínez (2006) show the necessity of developing students’ level of listening, speaking, reading & writing to produce and interpret any piece of written or spoken discourses, and to communicate perfectly. In this study researchers concentrated on two on these skills: reading and writing. There are different definitions of them, for example, Woolley (2011) refers to reading as the process of making meaning from text, that is to say, to gain an overall understanding of what is described in the text rather than to obtain meaning from isolated words or sentences . Regarding his words, it can be stated that reading does not only refer to the process of decoding a text word by word, but it also implies to understand what a person is reading in a particular context and about a specific topic (Pressley, 2000) . On the other hand, Nunan (1989) defines writing as the written products of thinking, drafting, and revising that require specialized skills on how to generate ideas, how to organize them coherently, how to use discourse markers and rhetorical conventions coherently into a written text, how to revise text for clearer meaning and how to edit text for appropriate grammar and how to produce a fin","cbCaiqg7tJW5B3Am","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqg7tJW5B3Am","pdf",1432041,25,"English","# I. 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