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Volume 17:5 May 2017
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The Effectiveness of Collaborative Work in Developing Students’ L2
Writing Achievement across Social Orientation

Moh. Hasbullah Isnaini
State University of Malang, Indonesia

Abstract

The present study investigated the effect collaborative work on students’L2 writing achievement across the social orientation, introvert and extrovert. There were 84 university students who were later divided into three different groups, one non-experimental group and two experimental groups. At the end of the research, the participants were asked to write an argumentative essay to see the effect of the collaborative work seen from different social orientation, introvert and extrovert. To answer the research question, the Independent Samples T test and one way ANOVA were employed. The result of the study suggests that collaborative work is better than the individual work, the extroverts outperforms its counterpart, introverts, in terms L2 writing achievement, and no significant difference found in the subsets of writing to the students’ L2 achievement. Thus, the result of the study implies that the use of collaborative work in the teaching of writing is suggested to help students write better.

Keywords: Collaborative Work, L2 Writing Achievement, Social Orientation, Extroversion, Introversion

Introduction

The position of English as the foreign language makes the learners have difficulties to write well. Some researcher have investigated the teaching and learning English which mostly focused on the individual work. In general, they found that students still had problems in EFL writing. Academic writing is still the main problem in EFL writing (Kasman, 2004). It is in line with Irawati who found that many college students and university graduates in Indonesia had low competence.

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Moh. Hasbullah Isnaini, M.A. in TEFL
Doctorate Candidate in TEFL
State University of Malang
Indonesia
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