Journal of English Language Teaching

Collaborative Writing as a means of Making Students Aware of the Process of Writing

Nivedita Malini Barua

Gauhati University, Assam

Keywords: Collaborative Writing, Improve writing skills, Collaboration strategy to improve writing

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Abstract

Writing is usually considered as an individual exercise. However, when it carried out as a group activity with a common goal of producing a text, it can result in increased levels of motivation and greater awareness about the techniques and the organizational patterns of writing. This paper discusses the findings of a classroom research done by the researcher in the Department of English Language Teaching of Gauhati University, Assam. It discusses how the author, an ELT practitioner, obtained positive results when she carried out the technique of collaborative writing with her students who were struggling to incorporate the writing techniques they were practicing in the academic writing class to writing for other papers in the course. The paper also shares the experiences of the problems faced by the author in trying to teach writing in this new manner.

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