texts. The past tense is also used to describe an object that does not exist anymore. Besides that, descriptive text also often uses neutral and objective language. As in this research,
students are expected to translate a short descriptive text, about 100-200 words, they will only
asked to translate a paragraph of descriptive text.
2.7 Concept of Group Work
Johnson and Blaker in Gladding 1995:3 state that a group is collection of two or more
individuals, who meet in face to face interaction, interdependently, with awareness that each belongs to the group and for the purpose of achieving mutually agreed-upon goals.
According to Flynn and La Fasso 1974:4 group work is a group of people who recognize themselves one another and who meet in face to face situation to accomplish some purposes.
The members of the group will help each other in order to accomplish in their purposes.
Furthermore, Hubbard and Jones 1984:36 say if groups are set up, they should like group, they should not be set up simply isolating different rows. It means that the students should be
grouped together around a table and should form structure of a group with their own leader. The leader should be the most competent in the class and should be able to form a
demonstration group with the teacher whenever necessary. As an addition, Johnson and Blaker in Gladding 1995:50 say that the role of the leader is crucial to the overall
functioning of the group. A group is a mirror of it leader, a group draws definition from its leader. It will be only as good as the leader, as good as his or her skills, and as good as the
leader’s own being. In short, leadership is necessarily concerned with group activity. Based on the explanation above, the researcher considers that group work is very beneficial
for the students’ learning process in studying English. Through group work the students can
discuss certain work or task assigned by the teacher. It can also be used to increase the students’ skill in translation a text because it gives the students many opportunities to be
active in their learning process and create a good relationship between teacher and students, because the teacher functions as the facilitator and motivator within the teaching- learning
process. Regarding to the previous definition, group work in this research is a unit of students which consist of five up to seven persons who come into contact for a purpose of discussing
such kind of translation text and doing a certain work designed by teacher dealing with the text.
2.8 Teaching Translation in the Classroom
