COLLABORATIVE WRITING: WHAT DO EFL STUDENTS SAY?
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Abstract: 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 in Writing IV course. This research was conducted at Universitas Islam Malang with four high achievers in English Department. 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. Collaborative writing in accomplishing 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. It related to 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.
Keywords: writing, collaborative writing, EFL students
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