WRITING A DEBATE ONLINE IN GOOGLE DOCS

Writing is an important skill required for communication. One of the specific objectives of writing in the CBSE curriculum of English at the senior secondary level is to develop the ability of the students to express their opinions, facts, and arguments through speech or debates by using a variety of accurate sentence structures. That is why, a long writing task to develop creative writing skills is assigned in the curriculum. The methods and techniques for delivering the curriculum are also mentioned. One of the methods and techniques is doing group and pair activities which can be used when wanted. Generally, the teachers should motivate students to interact actively with texts and with one another. Further, nowadays, tasks are increasingly mediated by technology. In keeping with the objectives of the curriculum, an online debate group writing task was designed and administered in class XI of a school in Delhi. All the participants were female. This paper aims to analyse the task performance quantitatively and analyse the participants’ perceptions. The data was collected through the task completed, the screen recordings of the tabs, and the audio recording of the classroom teaching-learning transactions. The data collected will be analysed through basic statistics and thematic analysis.