Exploring Male Students’ Perceptions in Doing Collaborative Writing in an EFL Writing Course
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
Yoana Vincentia Tjawan 112019039
ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION PROGRAM FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND ARTS UNIVERSITAS KRISTEN SATYA WACANA
SALATIGA
2023
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COPYRIGHT STATEMENT
This thesis contains no such material as has been submitted for examination in any course or accepted for the fulfillment of any degree or diploma in any university. To the best of my knowledge and my belief, this contains no material previously published or written by any other person where due reference is made in the text.
Copyright@ 2023. Yoana Vincentia Tjawan and Yustinus Calvin Gai Mali, Ph.D.
All right reserved. No part of this thesis may be reproduced by any means without the permission of at least one of the copyright owners or the English Language Education Program, Faculty of Language and Arts, Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana, Salatiga.
Yoana Vincentia Tjawan.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
COVER ...
APPROVAL PAGE ... i
COPYRIGHT STATEMENT ... ii
TABLE OF CONTENTS ... iii
LIST OF TABLES ... iv
ABSTRACT ... v
INTRODUCTION ... 1
LITERATURE REVIEW ... 3
THE STUDY ... 7
Context of the Study ... 8
Research Participants... 9
Data Collection Instruments ... 9
Data Collection Procedures ... 10
Data Analysis Procedures ... 11
Research Trustworthiness ... 11
FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION ... 11
The Students’ Perceptions of Benefits of Collaborative Writing ... 12
The Students’ Perceptions of Challenges and Difficulties of Collaborative Writing .. 16
CONCLUSION ... 19
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ... 22
REFERENCES ... 23
APPENDIX A ... 30
APPENDIX B ... 34
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LIST OF TABLES
Table 1 The Interview Questions ... 10 Table 2 The Students’ Perceptions of Benefits of Collaborative Writing ... 12 Table 3 The Students’ Perceptions of Challenges and Difficulties of Collaborative Writing 16
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EXPLORING MALE STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS IN DOING COLLABORATIVE WRITING IN AN EFL WRITING
COURSE
1Yoana Vincentia Tjawan 112019039
Abstract
Literature informs that writing collaboratively can help students to interact more in class, lower their anxiety about completing tasks alone, and raise their confidence.
However, despite the benefits of collaborative writing, not all English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students enjoy writing in a group. This study aimed at exploring male university students’ perceptions of doing collaborative writing in their EFL online writing class using Google Docs. Data were collected through semi- structured interviews with ten male university students at a private university in Central Java, Indonesia. The analysis results of this study indicate that most students showed a positive perception of their collaborative writing activity, such as getting useful and immediate feedback, fostering the exchange of knowledge, information, and experience, and getting the work done faster. This study is expected to offer some insights for EFL teachers to design more effective online collaborative writing activities in EFL writing classrooms, specifically in an Indonesian higher education context.
Keywords: collaborative writing, online writing class, Google Docs
1This thesis has been presented in the 9th Undergraduate Conference held by English Language Education Program at Sanata Dharma University in 2022 and has been published in LEKSIKA: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra dan Pengajarannya that has been indexed in SINTA 4 (DOI: 10.30595/lks.v17i1.16158).
