Collaborative Writing: What do EFL Students say?. Skripsi, English Education Department

Abstract

Writing is an ability to compose or communicate intended implication, idea, and purposes to the reader by using a clear, coherent, and well-organized paper through the process of thinking, studying, developing organizing, producing, revising, and editing the product. Writing is not an easy process; thus, many techniques are offered such as collaborative writing. The research is about the elaboration of EFL students’ perspective who have experienced collaborative writing in accomplishing article as the final task. This research was conducted at Universitas Islam Malang with four English Department students. The participants are the high achiever of writing IV course. The data is analyzed qualitatively with open-ended interview which is divided into two sessions. The interview which conducted once has fourteen questions. The data is taken in eight days. To make the data valid, the researcher does triangulation. The result showed that doing collaborative writing in accomplishing article writing task have numerous things which assist and hinder the participants. Collaborative writing in article has positivity in helping the participants to exchange the ideas that they had, also learning the way to work in group. However, the participants’ experience said that collaborative writing is complicated. The things that complicate the participants in doing this task are the irresponsibility and passive group members. In addition, the consultation time is the thing that hinder the participants. From this study, there are things which must be improved from several aspects. For future researcher, it was suggested to have the instructor’s point of view about collaborative writing to understand the implementation of the technique from the instructor view point.