ENGLISH STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF GROUP WORK ACTIVITIES IN LEARNING PROCESS” “(A Descriptive Study in the Fourth Semester of English Education Study Program Bengkulu University in the Academic Year 2022/2023)”

Keywords: Perception, Group work, Learning process
The objectives of this research were to find out the English students‟ perception of group
work activities in learning process and to investigate the correlaion between students‟
achievement and their perception. The population was 98 students from fourth semester of
English Education Study Program Bengkulu University in the academic year 2022/2023 and
the population was used as the total samples. Research instrument used for collecting the data
were questionnaire contained five aspects of group work (advantages of group work,
effectiveness of group work, implementation of group work, preference of group work, and
factor espousng group work). The collected data were analyzed by using descriptive
quantitative methods and SPSS ver. 20. The results of the research showed that most of
students (73.2%) had positive perception of group work activities. For the advantages of
group work the total average score was 3.12; for its effectiveness was 2.74; for its
implementation was 2.88; for its preference was 2.84; and for its factor espousing was 2.89.
Nevertheless, there was still some students (26.8%) had negative perception of group work
activities. As the most students‟ perception of group work was positive, it was recommended
that group work should be implemented more frequently in the teaching learning process.