TY - JOUR AU - Joni Alfino AU - Mohammad Adnan Latief AU - Utami Widiati AU - Ali Saukah PY - 2022/03/22 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Effect of Different Pair-Work Types on Students' Writing Quality JF - KnE Social Sciences JA - KSS VL - 7 IS - 6 SE - Articles DO - 10.18502/kss.v7i6.10603 UR - https://knepublishing.com/index.php/KnE-Social/article/view/10603 AB - Although the use of pair work in classrooms is relatively easy to employ, the pair-work technique has been attracting the attention of many researchers because this strategy is believed to be beneficial. This paper aimed to investigate the effect of different pair-work types (homogeneous, heterogeneous and randomized pairs) on students’ writing quality. Each pair wrote a single text: an argumentative essay. The average writing scores of the individual performances of the participants from the homogeneous group (n = 18), the heterogeneous group (n = 23), and the randomized group (n = 23) were compared. The results revealed that the participants in the randomized pair had the highest score (mean = 68.87), followed by the participants in the homogeneous group (mean = 64.17), and the lowest mean score was found in the heterogeneous group participants (mean = 57.13).Keywords: effect, pair work, writing quality ER -