Exploring male students’ perceptions in doing collaborative writing in an EFL writing course

Literature informs that writing collaboratively can help students to interact more in class, lower their anxiety about completing tasks alone, and raise confidence. However, despite the benefits of collaborative writing, not all English as a Foreign Language (EFL) enjoy group. This study aimed at exploring male university students’ perceptions doing EFL online class using Google Docs. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with ten private Central Java, Indonesia. The analysis results this indicate most showed positive perception activity, such getting useful immediate feedback, fostering exchange knowledge, information, experience, work done faster. is expected offer some insights for teachers design effective activities classrooms, specifically an Indonesian higher education context.