Mean Students’ Writing Scores

84 significant as not only the scores that increased, but also students’ confidence in doing every task during the research.

B. Implications

Based on the preliminary classroom observation, the researcher found that the students were hardly given any chance to write or do work in groups. She drew a conclusion that those were some of the reasons why the students’ writing skills were low and class interaction was really poor. The researcher then limited this study to the crucial problems in the writing class. After reviewing some literatures and finding the benefits of using cooperative learning, the researcher and the English teacher agreed to use cooperative learning to improve the students’ writing skills. The implementation of cooperative learning gave positive effects on the students’ writing skills because of some reasons. 1. In this research, cooperative learning was effective to engage the students’ motivation to write because by working in groups, they could learn how to compose good writing from each other and work together in composing it. 2. Using cooperative learning helped the students to overcome their problems in a lot of things such as generating ideas, constructing English sentences, vocabulary, spelling, and punctuation. It also helped the researcher to easily track the students’ progress on writing as she did not have to keep track of individual by individual but group by group. 3. Giving feedback on group assignments was a lot more effective as the groups would usually have a follow up discussion so they could reflect on their work and how to do it better next time. 85 4. Working in groups helped the students to be more cooperative with their friends. Good teamwork could also lead to effective and efficient writing in terms of content and time.

C. Suggestions

After conducting this research, the researcher would like to propose the following suggestions for not only English teachers, but also students and other researchers. 1. For English Teachers In reference to the results of this action research, cooperative learning had proven to be effective in improving the students’ writing skills. It could boost their motivation to write and make the writing activity more fun. Therefore, English teachers are recommended to use cooperative learning in writing as this method is still rarely put into good use in this area. 2. For Students Through cooperative learning, students were able to not only work together intently with their friends in such a relaxed atmosphere but also improve their writing skills. For the reason above, it is highly recommended that the students continue to use this learning method in writing. 3. For Other Researchers This study described how cooperative learning could be applied to improve students’ writing skills. There are many other problems in writing that are more complex, waiting to be solved. The researcher admittedly had limited time and ability to solve all the problems. To solve those, the other researchers can 86 conduct further studies in this area. This study hopefully can be used as one of the references before they conduct any research related to students’ writing skills.