one of the major purposes for doing group work that is giving students more opportunities to speak.
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Based on the statements above, group work is useful for student because the students are given more opportunity to be active in the classroom and they can
share the ideas to each other. Beside that in teaching learning process, group work can create enjoyable atmosphere for the student especially in learning reading
text. They can together decide types of English text, schematics structure, and language feature. In addition, group work can give the
students‘ attention and it can raise the students‘ motivation and interest in learning English.
3. The Technique of Using Group Work
Because the teacher has important role, one of the teaching strategies that can be used by the teacher is group work. While the teacher divide the student into
several group, that consist of three or more member of students‘ in group, and they will work together in learning English reading.
Harmer explained the procedures of group work; he classifies the procedures of group work into three parts. There are before, during, and after.
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1. Before
The teacher has follow the ‗engage-instruct-initiate‘ because students need to feel enthusiastic and understand what they are going to do, and then give an idea
of what they will have finished the task they are going to get involved in. The teacher has to involve the demonstration when gives the instructions for
students, in order to give clear instruction but if activity is familiar with students, teacher just give simply instruction.
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H. Douglas Brown, Teaching by Principle: An Interactive approach to Language Pedagogy, San Francisco: Longman, 2000. p. 177.
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Jeremy Harmer, op. cit., pp. 122 —124.
The teacher has to give students a time to finish their activity. It will give the success of group work task because it helps to give a clear framework to work
within, then it an encourage groups to be the first finishers, and then it can be a game that has a slight sense of competition between groups are no harm.
The instruction is important thing. The teacher should give students in understanding and agreeing of the task, and then to check students‘ understanding
on the teacher‘s instruction, so the teacher ask them to repeat it, or they can
translate into their first language. 2.
During Teachers‘ role is important in organizing group work to make the techniques
can used in the classroom. It is used to consider and ensure that group work activities will work well and know about how to resolve any problems that might
occur. It is useful to know how to decide to put individual student into a group with their classmates.
Monitoring the student in- group work activities is teacher‘s important role
because it is help to know how well student doing and the cooperation they are making in the activity. When students are doing their task in-group, the teacher
can monitor students by standing at the front, side, back or anywhere else in the classroom and keep on what is happeni
ng. In this position the teacher can ‗tune in‘ to a particular group, decide whether to go over, and help that group.
A problem that frequently occurs when students are working in-group is that some of them finish earlier than others. Student also needs some activities to do
something else when they are finished the work. Teacher should be ready for this situation and know what some way to handle with this situation.
3. After
After work finish, the teacher has to organize feedback from students. The teacher discusses about what happened during the group work season, gives the
assessment, and makes correction.
A few group work finish, the teacher‘s feedback by using the target language, if students make the mistakes, the teacher corrects it. It is used to give them
information for future learning and action. In-group work students discuss an issue and guess the content of a reading
text, and the teacher encourages them to give their conclusion. Then the teacher and students compare their different solution, ideas, and problems. It helps them
to get an understanding of the topic. After that, the teacher asks the student to make a conclusion on a piece of
paper and give them a chance to demonstrate it in the class, or they can write on the white board, or read the text that they have written.
Finally, the teacher has to construct feedback because it is important to enhance students‘ motivation in the future. The teacher gives feedback on the
language mistake is only one part of that process.
4. The Advantages and Disadvantages of Group Work
In general, it is possible to say that small groups of around five students provoke greater involvement and participation than larger groups. They are small
enough for real interpersonal yet not too small that members are over-reliant upon each individual. However, group work has advantages and disadvantages.
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1. The Advantages of Group Work
The advantages of group work it is can encourage student‘s skill of cooperation and sharing the idea. It is help student to feel comfortable to share
their idea and involved in participation with their friend. Using group work as techniques in promoting interactive learning have many advantages, they are as
follows:
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Ibid., p. 117.
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Penny Ur, Discussion that Work: Task-centered fluency practice, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981, pp. 7
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