Students apply higher thinking strategies which help them construct meaning from what they read and help them monitor progress toward their
goals. One of the important aspects of collaborative learning is that it is
helping promote collaborative behavior and better group relations among students. It is simultaneously helping students with their academic learning.
6. The Disadvantages of Collaborative learning
Serious problems could arise in situations where the collaborating partners have different goals. There may also be instances in which two
partners would suggest contradictory solutions to problem that arise
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. It takes much time to organize the group. The teacher should make
the group that combines all the students that have different intelligences heterogeneous groups.
The class situation become noisy, therefore the teacher needs to control the students.
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David Nunan, Collaborative Language Learning and Teaching…,p. 173
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Purpose of the Study
The purpose of this research is to find out the effectiveness of learning reading through collaborative learning. This research also tries to
help the teachers aware about the better way for the students in learning reading.
B. Place and Time of the Study
The study was conducted at the second grade students of SMAN 8 South Tangerang. It is located at Jl. Cireundeu Raya No. 5 RTRW 00401
Cireundeu, Ciputat, South Tangerang. It took about a month research, started in April to May 2010.
C. Research Method
The design of this study is pre-experimental research about learning reading through collaborative learning at second grade students of SMAN 8
South Tangerang. According to Ary, this research usually involves three steps: 1 administering a pre-test measuring the dependant variable, 2
applying the experimental treatment X to the subject, and 3 administering a post-test, again measuring the dependant variable. Differences attributed to
application of the experimental treatment are then evaluated by comparing the pre-test and post-test scores.
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In line with that idea, Nunan also said that the pre-experimental research may has pre- and post-treatment test, but lacks a
control group.
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Donald Ary, et. Al., Introduction to Research in Education, New York: Harcourt Brace Publishers, 1996, pp. 329-330
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David Nunan, Research Methods in Language Learning, New York: Cambridge University Press,1992, p. 41
