The effects of collaborative writing methods in pairs on students' awareness and attitude

Abstract

Previous studies suggested that collaborative writing was perceived positively by students and it came up with several benefits that helped students in writing processes. However, previous studies also mainly mentioned how to write collaboratively in groups, few studies have written about collaborative writing methods in pairs, and no research on this issue has been done at the People's Police College 2. Being a teacher of English, after many times marking the writing exam of students, many lecturers believe that the students' individual writing is not of high quality, making many mistakes in vocabulary, grammar, poor ideas, and the layout is not clear, ... In order to find out how students’ ways of writing in pairs, the author conducted a poll. The study was carried out on a class of 50 students who are first-year students at the Foreign Language & Informatics Department in the People's Police College 2. Students are asked to write 06 short emails in pairs, each email is about 60 words with 06 different topics. Then, students answered survey questions about collaborative writing in pairs. The results show that students have a positive attitude towards this method and are more interested in learning to write English. From the results of the survey, the author found that teachers’ teaching methods in writing skills also should vary accordingly, and teachers at the Foreign Language & Informatics Department at the People's Police College 2 can consider this teaching model.