A Case Study of ASEAN EFL Learners’ Collaborative Writing and Small Group Interaction Patterns in Google Docs

The study investigated the interaction patterns of six ASEAN EFL university students when they worked in small groups on two collaborative writing tasks: a descriptive essay and an argumentative essay. Both were homogeneous terms gender heterogeneous home countries. Data collection included pre- posttest writing, post-task questionnaires, participants’ work essays, their reflections, observations, semi-structured interviews. essays Google Docs, researcher(s) used DocuViz as tool for visualizations students’ contributions styles. findings showed different (a cooperative revision style Group A vs. main writer B) across tasks. While revising, both added corrected employed almost same change functions language functions, which suggesting, agreeing, stating.