A review on “The Effect of Collaborative Writing Practive on EFL Learnes’ Writing Accuracy, Complexity, and Fluency” written by Ali Gholami Mehrdad, Seyed Mohammad Alavi, and Mohammad Khatib
Collaborative
writing as a teaching writing method has been proved to benefit on students’
writing ability. Many English teacher have implemented this since they believe
that writing activity will be more effective if it is done collaboratively. A study
by Mehrdad, et. al. results on the beneficial effects of collaborative writing
towards students’ writing ability. He narrowed the focus of the study on
writing accuracy, complexity, and fluency. The results show that collaborative writing promotes
students to focus on language use and negotiation meaning. It may also increase
their motivation to be involved in writing activities. Besides, it also results
on the positive effect of collaborative writing on students’ writing fluency,
complexity, grammatical accuracy, and language use which is more complex. Students
can get better fluency in collaborative writing because they express and
arrange their ideas into written form collaboratively. Therefore, they are
customized to arrange their ideas fluently. Complexity deals with the language use. By having
collaborative work in writing, they can share and learn each other about their
language knowledge. Thus, students’ joining collaborative writing will have
more complex language use than the other who do it individually. Further,
collaborative writing can facilitate students to have better grammatical
accuracy. This is due to the collaborative activity during wrting process that
can enables them to directly correct their partner’s writing. Experience of
correcting and being corrected will make them more aware with the grammar they
use in writing.
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