Applying Group Work to Improve Student???s Grammar Achievements

It has been explained that grammar is one of\ud the main element of language which is very\ud important to be mastered in all skill such as\ud speaking, reading, and writing. Based on the finding\ud of this study, it can be concluded that there was a\ud significant effect of students??? achievement in English\ud grammar after being taught through the use of group\ud work technique .The descriptive analysis proves also\ud that the mean score of students??? achievement in\ud english grammar before applying group work\ud technique is low category. It is indicated the mean\ud mark in pre test is 5.58 or it was low category.\ud Meanwhile, the mean score of students??? achievement\ud in english grammar after applying Group work\ud technique is high category. It is indicated the mean\ud score in post test was 7.55 which meant that in high\ud category. So, it can be drawn an evidence that group\ud work as an effective learning technique to student\ud that can be used to improve the students???\ud achievement in learning grammar particularly in\ud form of past tense for senior high school student. \ud \ud Furthermore, by considering the finding of this\ud study, the researcher suggested to the English teacher\ud since the researcher was proved that group work\ud technique contributed to students??? achievement in\ud grammar mastery, English teacher are highly\ud recomended to impelement this technique to teach \ud grammar as the intentional grammar learning\ud instruction.Grammar is one of the English language\ud elements which is very important to be mastered in\ud all skill of language such as speaking, reading, and\ud writing. In English learning subject, teacher\ud emphasizes student to be focus best on grammar if\ud they want to master English. However, many\ud students still low in grammar skill. They felt that\ud learning grammar is difficult. Students tend to be \ud passive because of the way teacher brings the\ud material is monotonous. The aim of this paper is to\ud find out the increase of students??? achievement in\ud learning past tense grammar by applying group\ud work. This study used a descriptive quantitative\ud research. The sample of this study was 40 students by\ud using purposive sampling. The instrument of this\ud study was an instructional past tense test that\ud consisted of 40 items. The procedure of collecting\ud data used test distribution and analysis data. The\ud finding showed that students had high achievement\ud in grammar through group work learning. It was\ud indicated by the mean score was 5.58 at pre-test, it\ud meant that the students??? grammar ability was in Low\ud criteria, and then the mean score became 7.55 at\ud post-test, it meant that the students??? grammar ability\ud was in High criteria. It means that applying group\ud work improves students??? grammar achievement\ud significantl