COLLABORATIVE LEARNING MODEL IN ACADEMIC WRITING
Ade Ismail, Ninuk Lustyantie, Emzir

Universitas Negeri Jakarta

Abstract

Collaborative learning model in academic writing is a process of writing one text jointly by two or more authors, joint ownership of the written document (Storch 2011) while academic writing is a high standard writing process that requires a special methodology (Carvazal Medina, Florez et al. 2014). The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of collaborative learning models on the academic writing skills of EFL students. This research was conducted from March 2018 to February 2020 in English Language Education Study Program, Khairun University, Indonesia which involved 60 students. This research applied research and development method. The results showed that the collaborative learning process could improve students skills in writing academic texts. The results of the effectiveness test (Mann-Whitney test) show that the Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed) = 0.00 <0.05, where indicates that there is a significant difference between collaborative learning models compared to conventional learning models and accepting the alternative hypothesis that collaborative learning models improve students ability to write academic texts (argumentative essay) in English.

Keywords: collaborative learning model, academic writing

Topic: Education