Positive Interdependence The Elements of Cooperative Learning

23 e Checker explainer. The function is to check that everyone agrees before a group discussion is made and check that everyone understands the assignment and what is needed to finish. The last, the students have to be a Quite Captain. The function is to make sure the group does not disturb other group. 30 Another student‟s role in cooperative learning can be stated that the student as a member of a group must work collaboratively on task with other group members, because it is a primary role for the students in cooperative learning and also the students have to be the directors of their own learning. The students are taught to plan, monitor, and evaluate their own learning. 31 Although Cooperative learning is learning together with groups, the students have to take the task individually. 32 Based on the explanations above, the writer assumes that it is possible for Indonesian ‟s students to do those roles when their teacher applies cooperative learning in the classroom. When the teacher applies it, the students have opportunities to be an explainer, an encourager, a monitor and they can share with their friends to accomplish their lessons. Because, learning by sharing with their classmates can make the social interactions and help students to learn for one another‟s strength and limitations and to accept these differences. 33 .

2. The Teachers’ role in Cooperative Learning

According to Richards, there are some roles for the teachers when the teacher want to implement cooperative learning in the classroom 34 . Below are the brief explanations about the teachers‟ roles in cooperative learning: a The teachers have to create highly structured and well-organized learning environment in the classroom. 30 Carolyn Kessler, Cooperative Language Learning a Teacher’s Resource Book, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hill, inc. , 1992, p. 10. 31 Richards. loc. cit. 32 Diane Larsen Freeman, Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, p. 168. 33 Killen, loc. cit. 34 Richards, loc, cit.