Esl Undergraduate Sudents’ Perceptions of Collaborative Writing Project
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.210312.079How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- collaborative writing project, writing problems, motivation, vocabulary, ESL learners
- Abstract
Writing in the English language is difficult for many ESL learners. Engaging these learners in a collaborative writing process can help them discover their writing problems and perhaps solve the problems simultaneously. The present study was based on a collaborative writing project assigned to undergraduates as part of their writing course assessments. The objective of the project was to determine whether it could help improve the students’ writing skills, motivation to write, and develop their vocabulary. A total of 971 undergraduates with MUET Band 1-5 participated in this four-week writing project. The undergraduates were asked to produce a booklet consisting of at least ten pictures with written descriptions, which demonstrated their ability to use various sentence structures. Upon completing the project, the undergraduates completed a survey. The descriptive analysis done on the survey data showed that 100 percent of the undergraduates agreed that their involvement in the project increased their motivation to write. 97.66 percent of them positively perceived that the project helped them improve their writing, and 97.77 percent agreed that the project enabled them to add more vocabulary to their repertoire. Further analysis of the data revealed that the students could identify their writing problems from the writing project assigned. These findings imply that a properly structured writing project can help motivate students to write and improve their writing skills.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Nik Izyani Binti Nik Nordin AU - Rosyati Abdul Rashid AU - Sharon Lim Sui Lin PY - 2021 DA - 2021/03/13 TI - Esl Undergraduate Sudents’ Perceptions of Collaborative Writing Project BT - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Science, Technology, Engineering and Industrial Revolution (ICSTEIR 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 481 EP - 485 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210312.079 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210312.079 ID - Nordin2021 ER -