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Lee, In-Chul, Kang, Mun-Koo & Han, Seok-Hee. 2015. The Study on the Improvement of English Proficiency through Task Force Team Activities. Journal of Linguistic Studies 20(1), 79-98. This study was conducted on the learner-centered class through Task Force Team(TFT) activities, all of which is a form of collaborative learning where students with a same learning objective work together in groups. For this study, 40 students in two separate classrooms of a middle school in Chung-Cheong province participated in the survey. In order to find the effectiveness on the improvement of the learners’ English proficiency, a teaching-learning model using TFT activities had been created, and later applied to classes for this study. In addition, as a way of making learners keep up their work out of classroom, home-learning tasks designed by researchers were also given to the learners as their homeworks throughout the year. The result suggests that the classes using TFT activities led the learners to have higher interest and self-confidence in classes and at the same time made them more self-directed in terms of their learning attitude. Furthermore, the home-learning tasks given by researchers also turned out to be effective in that they participated actively in classes and showed more frequent use of speaking and writing in and out of classroom. (Kongju National University)