learners in learning process. In second language teaching, it is also adopted as a way of promoting communicative interaction in the classroom Richards and
Rodgers, 2003:192. Cooperative learning is an approach to teach that makes
maximum use of cooperative activities involving pairs and small groups of learners in the classroom. Therefore, cooperative learning is a learning method
focusing on students group work. The students work in groups to achieve the academic objectives together.
Through the use of cooperative learning, it is believed that students could be encouraged to develop communicative competence, to appreciate others, to
help each other, and to develop other social skills needed in the working world. By helping each other to learn in pairs or small groups, it is believed that the
lower-achieving students could feel safe and confident to learn. Furthermore, through the use of cooperative learning, the achievements of all students could be
raised.
B. Purpose
The purpose of this design is to provide the eleventh grade students of SMA Santo Bernardus Pekalongan with English reading materials that are
expected to encourage the students to learn and help them develop their reading skills. Besides, the materials are deliberately designed employing cooperative
learning that could ease the students to do the reading activities cooperatively. Therefore, it is expected that the students can maximize their learning.
C. Content
There are eight units in the designed materials. The topics of all units were decided based on the students’ interests. The activities of each unit are categorized
into three main activities, that is, pre-reading activity, whilst-reading activity, and post-reading activity.
1. Pre-reading The function of this part is to activate students’ knowledge about the text
and motivate the students so they will have motivation or interest in reading. The pre-reading activities become important because the activities can give support to
the students in their attempts to deal with a series of complex tasks. In this activity, the teacher will give the students a picture related to the topic.
2. Whilst-reading Whilst-reading becomes the main activity in every unit. The purpose of
this activity is to develop the students’ skills in reading. In this part, the students are encouraged to be active and reflective. They have to be able to read aloud and
understand the message sent by the writer in the text. This part will provide the students with a reading passage related to the topic discussed and some questions
to be discussed. 3. Post-reading
This part provides an opportunity for the students to develop their other skills since this part consists of communicative activities or reflection to find out
whether they are learning or not. Each topic of the designed materials was developed into the materials for
one meeting. Therefore, there were eight meetings since the designed materials consisted of eight topics. In order to reach the goals in each topic, the writer
employed some approaches of cooperative learning. The subject contents of all topics are presented in the table.
