@misc{eprints15456,
           title = {A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN STUDENTS? ACHIEVEMENT IN
LEARNING SIMPLE PAST TENSE TAUGHT THROUGH GROUP
WORK AND TAUGHT THROUGH INDIVIDUAL STUDY},
          author = {- DINA MUSTIKA RINI},
         address = {UNIVERSITAS LAMPUNG},
       publisher = {FAKULTAS KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN},
            year = {2010},
         journal = {Digital Library},
             url = {http://digilib.unila.ac.id/15456/},
        abstract = {The lack of students competence in mastering the structure pattern, especially
simple past tense, usually hinders them to communicate about their past
experience and events in English. Meanwhile, past tense becomes one of
important tense that should be mastered by the students of SMP. Therefore, the
researcher compared two teachings, group work and individual study to
investigate the results of applying those two teachings in teaching simple past
tense and to find out which one that would give better result than another.
This quantitative study reports a research conducted in second year of SMPN 23
Bandar Lampung to find out whether there is significant difference of students?
simple past tense achievement between those taught through group work and
those taught through individual study. In doing this research, the researcher used
intact group pretest and posttest design. There were two classes used in this
research, VIII C was the experimental class 1 taught through group work and VIII
D was the experimental class 2 taught through individual study. The sample was
taken randomly through lottery. The treatments were administered in three
meetings to both classes.
The result showed that there was a significant difference of students? simple past
tense achievement between those taught through group work and individual study.
It can be seen from the difference of the students? mean score. The students? mean
score of the experimental class 1 was 57,19 while the mean score of the posttest
was 79,30. And the mean score of the pretest in the experimental class 2 was 59,
21 while the mean score of the posttest was 64,55. After comparing those results,
it was found that although those teaching could give improvement to the students
but teaching simple past tense through group work gave better result than
individual study. Based on the data analysis at the significant level f 0.05, it
proves that the students? scores were significantly different (p{\ensuremath{>}}0.05, p=0.000). So
that the hypothesis proposed in this research was accepted. It means that there is
significant difference of simple past tense achievement between students taught
through group work and individual study.}
}