Students’ Perspectives On Collaborative Writing In The Post-Pandemic Era

Abstract

After the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the students tended to work individually in doing their assignment, including writing assignment. This caused their writing ability to be low. Then, it was considered to be important to implement collaborative writing so this study aimed to investigate the students’ perceptions on the implementation of collaborative writing in the post-pandemic era. The researchers used a survey research design. Twenty students of a paragraph writing class of an English language education department in a reputable university in Jombang. became the participants in this study. Questionnaire that consisted of eight close-ended questions was used to collect the data. After the data was collected, then, the percentage of participant responses for each question item was calculated. The results show that the students’ writing ability to write a paragraph became better after the implementation of collaborative writing. Besides, the students also gave positive perceptions toward the use of collaborative writing in the post-pandemic era because they felt happy and confident to write. They also enjoyed the learning atmosphere created. Hopefully, the results of this study can be a consideration for EFL teachers to use collaborative writing for their writing class in this post-pandemic of COVID-19.