Developing EFL learners’ academic writing through collaborative writing projects

Over the last decade, globalisation has invaded our world and reformed education. This has deeply affected the learners’ level and interests. As far as the writing skill is concerned, EFL learners tend to use a more informal English rather than academic with many other problems. For instance, academic writing is a highly problematic task to the students. They face many challenges that negatively affect their productions such as cohesion and coherence problems, in addition to vocabulary and grammatical issues. This makes the central aim of the teachers nowadays is to enhance their students’ performance towards better academic writing. Accordingly, the present research paper tries to spot light on the obstacles that most EFL learners encounter. It also attempts to help the learners overcome these challenges through collaborative writing projects. To reach this end, many cooperative activities are implemented in the writing classes, and a collaborative writing project is assigned in order to evaluate the students’ outputs and examine to what extent they can improve their writing. The major findings show a significance improvement in the students writing productions through collaboration.