16 It can be summarized that authentic tasks should meet at least three
criteria. The first is that it should give opportunities for the students to practice using the language through the integration of speaking and listening. The second
is that it provides chances for the students to experience real English communication in which they are able to understand and to respond what their
interlocutors are saying. The third is that it is relevant to the students‘ background
or culture in which the language is used.
d. English Communication
In relation with authenticity in language learning, the value of communication or interaction with others is highly appreciated to be able to create
authentic learning. There are three main definitions of communication as stated in Keeble, 2005:179:
a. Watzlawick et al. 1967: 22, …all behavior, not only speech, is
communication, and all communication – even the communicational cues in
an impersonal context – affects behavior.
b. Athanassiades 1974: 195: Verbal and non-verbal communication, i.e. the
flow of information, impressions, and understandings from one individual to others.
c. Communication is used as synonymous to interaction. Spitzber, 1998: 68
stated that Taken very broadly, communicative competence is the ability to interact well with others.
It can be perceived that communication refers not only to speech or verbal message but also to behaviors or attitude in the way people interact with others. In
the context of English learning, the students and their interlocutors should comprehend the goal of the communication so that the message will be effectively
understood Viviers and Schalkwyk, 1992.
17 Communication consists of four essential parts Claude Shannon and
Warren Weaver as in Wrench 2013:11. They are ―sender, receiver, message, and
channel‖. These four elements influence the goal of learning a language which is to help the learners to communicate meaningfully and to understand others better.
Language learning as a consequence should always be related with communication. ―Language is communication. And communication both
determines and is determined by social meaning‖ Savignon, 104.
It can be summarized in the study that authentic communication relates with the English learning. It refers to interaction in which the participants and
their friends they are talking to are able to understand the goal of communication. They are able to perform language tasks which give them opportunities to apply
the English knowledge they have obtained like vocabulary and grammar into communicative practices. To add, it also gives them experience to real English
communication which is spontaneous and affected by the culture where the language is used.
2. Cooperative Learning CL
