Improving Students Competence in Writing Job Search Document through Group Work in Task-Based Language Teaching

Sasongko Politeknik Negeri Semarang Abstract: This research is an attempt to provide new evident for the influence of group-work in Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) on the improvement of students writing competence, especially in writing job search document. The study is to find out the influence of group-work in TBLT on improving the students competence in writing job search document and to identify the problems arising during the process in the classroom activities. The research is carried out under an Action Research (AR); as it is done in the classroom, this action research is called a classroom action research. This research was conducted in three cycles and the indicators of successful research are: 1) minimum passing grade is 80 and 2) 80% students (the research subject) are classified as active students. In order to determine the effectiveness of group work in task-based language teaching, a set of one-sample t-test was conducted in cycle 1, cycle 2 and cycle 3. And to describe the students activity during the teaching process, a descriptive analysis using excel table was conducted in cycle 1, cycle 2 and cycle 3. Furthermore, in order to comment on the hypothesis proposed, a set of simple regression analysis was also conducted in cycle 1, cycle 2 and cycle 3. The result shows the Students Activity(X) influences positively and significantly in improving the Students Writing Competence Score(Y) at the level of .05. Key words: Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT), group work, Classroom Action Research