Collaborative Paragraph Writing in Students’ Writing Skill

This study explores the effect of collaborative writing technique to students’ writing skill in writing recount paragraph. This experimental research was conducted in 4 weeks (8 meetings). 33 students participated in experimental group, whereas the other 33 students was in a control group. Writing test was conducted. The findings showed that the technique gave a significant effect to students’ writing skills. It can be suggested that English teachers need to apply this technique as an alternative technique in teaching writing in English, especially in recount paragraph.