COACHED WRITING AND CROWD WRITING PRODUCTS IN THE TEACHING OF EFL WRITING

Abstract

Writing as one of the four language skills is a very important skill for communication, especially in a written form. In universities in Indonesia, writing in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) is taught to the students of the English departments. Through the teaching of EFL writing, the students will be able to learn to write according to the academic conventions. The process of writing through systematic teaching is called ‘coached writing.’ In this digitization era, however, students also become users of social media. Social media have so many users that they are referred to as ‘crowd.’ The crowd in social media communicate and they might be willing to be involved in some activities initiated by some users. These particular users try to attract the crowd in activities such as crowd funding, crowd sourcing, crowd translating, and crowd writing, This article reports the result of a study which investigated the differences between the products of coached writing and those of crowd writing. It also discusses some implications of crowd writing practices so that EFL teachers will be aware of the phenomenon and its effects on ethical and academic issues.