involves cooperation and collaboration. And the teachers only have to listen into group work to hear students correcting one another’s mistakes.
3. Give the instruction clearly, whether it is individual project or group project The teacher explains that each group will accept the different project;
shehe explains that each student will be an expert. In the “expert step” the student in each group will learn the project together. Then, the teacher asks
one student of one group to teach his group’s project to the other groups, so do the other groups.
4. Monitor students „learning and involved within the groups to provide task
assistance or to increase students’ teamwork skill.
The teacher gives the students opportunity to acquire learning experience in order to reach the goal of learning activity. During the students are getting
work, the teacher systematically observes and collect data on each group as it works. When it is needed, the teacher intervenes to assist students in
completing the task accurately and in working together effectively. 5.
Evaluate the students’ achievement through giving the test The teacher gives the test to know how well the students understand about
the material, and to know how well the group functioned.
D. Relevant Study
The writer took two previous relevant studies as a guideline to implement the research, they are:
1. The research about vocabulary mastery using cooperative learning had been done by
Kristiantari that was “The Effectiveness of Cooperative Learning to Improve Students’ Vocabulary Mastery A Classroom Action Research at the
Eighth Grade Students of Madrasah Tsanawiyah Nadlotul Muslimat Surakarta 2009-2010
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.This research explained about the application of
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Kristiantari, The Effectiveness of Cooperative Learning to Improve Students’ Vocabulary Mastery A Clas sroom Action Research at the Eighth
Grade Students of MTs.Nadlotul Muslimat Surakarta 2009-2010. Master’s thesis,
Sebelas Maret University.
cooperative learning to improve students’ vocabulary. She used the
cooperative learning to improve students’ vocabulary in order to get
information of cooperative learning to students’ vocabulary mastery of the 8
th
grade in MTs.Nadlotul Muslimat, because this learning strategy is one of strategy that is hoped to be used in improving students’ vocabulary mastery.
In fact, the result of interpretation of the data shows that cooperative learning improves students’ vocabulary mastery. It can be seen from the improvement
of the mean score of every cycle: pre-test and post-test of every cycle. By using cooperative learning, the researcher hopes that the students will be
interested in learning vocabulary, then, it is easier for the students to memorize or
enrich the students’ vocabulary. This is suitable such as what the researcher does to his research.
2. The research paper by the title “The use of Cooperative Learning in Teaching
Vocabulary”an experimental research at the first grade students of Junior
High School of Assalam Islamic Boarding School Sukabumi written by Zaini Rahman
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. The researcher would like to know the influence of using cooperative learning in teaching vocabulary to the first grade students of
junior high school of Assalam Islamic Boarding School Sukabumi. The result his research shows that his experimental research is successful. It means that
the result of analysis of interpretation of the data shows that using cooperative learning can give an influence to increase students’ achievement in
vocabulary. It can be seen that the score of post-test is higher than pre-test.
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Zaini Rahman, “The use of Cooperative Learning in Teaching Vocabulary”an experimental research at the first grade students of Junior High
School of Assalam Islamic Boarding School Sukabumi.Sripsi, Jakarta:FITK UIN,2009
E. Conceptual Framework
To use the language, mastering vocabulary is needed. Vocabulary is a basic element to know the language. It is needed for understanding the meaning of
word and using it in the communication. Vocabulary mastery can be reached by learning activities. It is not easy to learn vocabulary. The learner must learn
actively. A suitable method is needed to improve the vocabulary. Cooperative Learning appears as one of the promising learning concept
offering some new views in teaching and learning a second language especially vocabulary learning. Particularly cooperative learning give learner the opportunity
to think for themselves, compared their thinking with others, make a small research project and investigate subject matter with other learner. It is expected in
teaching and learning vocabulary that memorizing and spelling the words will be gotten by understanding the meaning with the context of a phrase or larger in
group situation. From the reason above, it is expected that cooperative learning can be a
suitable method for teaching and learning vocabulary, although the question of which methods is most appropriate for teaching and learning a foreign language is
still under debate. Although none is perfect, some these way are expected more successful than other.
