English Writing Abilities and Social Skills of Students Engaged in Collaborating Writing Using Google Docs
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This study aimed to compare the English writing abilities and social skills of undergraduate students before and after learning collaborative writing in a Google Docs setting and in a face-to-face setting. The samples were 1 classroom of 34 undergraduate students majoring in English in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Chiang Mai Rajabhat University. They enrolled in a Paragraph Writing course in first semester of the 2023 academic year. They were divided into an experimental group learning in the Google Docs setting and a control group learning in the face-to-face setting. The study was conducted for 12 class sessions. Each session lasted three hours. The research instruments were four lesson plans, a writing test, and a social skills questionnaire. Data were analyzed by percentage, mean, standard deviation, paired sample t-test, and independent samples t-test. The results showed that (1) there was no significant difference in the writing abilities between the experimental group and the control group; and (2) the social skills of the experimental group were significantly higher than those of the control group at the 0.01 level of significance.
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