Pre-Teaching collaboration In-Class Collaboration Post-Lesson Collaboration

1. Pre-Teaching collaboration

a. Choosing the subject to be taught using collaborative learning. b. Observing the students for arranging groups. c. Planning the teaching and learning activity that may be occurred in classroom. d. Planning the possibility way out for problems in collaboration that may occur.

2. In-Class Collaboration

a. Grouping students based on what teacher has observed before. b. Explaining about conditional sentence type 2 and get them discussed it. it can really helps in cases when a student is confused and the teacher does not understand the source of confusion, the partner who was watching can frequently solve the problem more easily than the partner who had primary teaching responsibility at the time. Teaching is such a demanding activity that we can not always be fully aware of all that is happening while we are concentrating on the teaching. c. Asking every volunteer in a group to make another example of conditional sentence type 2 and to connect it with their experience. d. Asking students to complete a task and remind them that the score will be graded both individually participation and in a group.

3. Post-Lesson Collaboration

a. Sharing the score in each group b. Discussing each student’s strengths and weaknesses, and improvement before assigning a final grade.

CHAPTER III THE PROFILE OF SMK YANUSA

SMK YANUSA stands for Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan Yayasan Nurus Sa’adatain. It is located on Jalan H. Saikin no. 10 Pondok Pinang Jakarta Selatan. It was built in 1985. The Head Master is Drs. Sofwan Nizami.

A. The Teacher

The English teacher at SMK YANUSA, who helped the writer in getting the data, is Mr. Apipudin, S.Ag. Because his educational background is not English education, sometimes he used traditional method in teaching English to his students. Therefore, when he heard about collaborative learning and how it can help students with English problems, especially grammatical problems, he fully supports it. This can be proved from the interviewed after the writer had applied the collaborative learning method in the classroom.

B. The Students

The students in SMK Yanusa are generally coming from middle down level of society. There are 3 classes there. They are: Accountancy Class 24 students, Office Administration Class 25 students and Marketing Class 25 students. For them, to collaborate in learning, is something very new. Moreover, in English, they usually study individually. They got confused for the first time, but then, they adapt it and happy to learn English with their friends. The students are generally live in groups. They feel more comfortable to learn within their folks or to learn by themselves. They seem do not get used to learn or study together with the students outside their groups. The writer wants to change this habit, then the writer conduct collaborative learning method in teaching them.

C. The Curriculum

The use of conditional sentence type 2 as a subject research is because it is one of the subjects stated in the textbook used at SMK YANUSA. The textbook used for a guide in teaching is published by Mediatama. 23