• Moh. Hasbullah Isnaini

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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 group. 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.

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