The Implementation Of Collaborative Writing To Teach Asking And Giving Opinion In A Vocational High School In Yogyakarta

Abstract

The focus of the best practice is to describe to the readers about implementation of collaborative writing to teach language function asking and giving opinion. I used collaborative writing to build knowledge of spoken text structure. The collaborative writing consisted of four students in each group. I implemented collaborative writing in whilst-teaching. The first thing was that I asked the student to do the handout practice. Then, I asked them to finish with their chair mates (collaborative writing). The last was that I asked them to give the handout to me. Those are the step that I used to do collaborative writing. After collaborative writing, I noticed that the students were engaged better in knowledge building activity about text structure. They enjoyed doing the worksheet while discussing with their friends rather than did the worksheet alone.