Although there was a good improvement, the student just studied about two kinds of the English text types, narratives and explanation, through
collaborative learning. Therefore, the researcher would try to give the other kinds of English text types in the next meeting for the next cycle to get betterment.
5. Reflection
In analyzing the data, both researchers and his collaborator analyzed the strength and the weaknesses of collaborative learning technique, the problems
that had been solved during the first cycle based on the activity in the classroom and the task in the post reading. Based on the observation in the first cycle, it
could be concluded that the students had understood the function of collaborative learning. Moreover, there were some positive things or the strength of
collaborative learning implemented in the first cycle. There were: first based on the previous interview, the students stated that this technique was able to help to
improve their capability in comprehending the English text types because the members of the group could help and motivate one another. They discussed the
problems together so that they could do the tasks well and they all understood the solutions. Second, based on the tasks in the post reading, through collaborative
learning technique, the students’ mistakes in answering the detail questions could be reduced. Third, this technique could stimulate them to discuss and solve other
problems when they found difficulties in comprehending the other texts. Fourth, the technique could also encourage the students to improve the students’ oral
activities.
There were still many weaknesses in implementing the collaborative learning. First, there were still few inactive students who did non academic things
when the researcher was not closed and did not control them. Second, there were still few students who felt shy to ask and express to their friends and the
researcher when they found difficulties, and third the students had insufficient vocabularies that could influence them in expressing something in the discussion
and could influence them their capabilities in comprehending the English text. Although there were still some weaknesses in implementing the
collaborative learning, it could be concluded that the collaborative learning influenced the improvement of the students’ capabilities in comprehending the
English text types. The action was continued in the next cycle in order to get better improvement and to reduce the weaknesses. Therefore, the researcher also
tried to take attention about the weaknesses of the first cycle by doing some approaches to them in the next cycle.
D. The Description of Cycle 2 1. Planning
There were weaknesses found in English language teaching and learning process in cycle 1. Some students did non academic activities during the
instructional process. They did not give contribution at all to the discussion in the collaborative learning. Some of them were chatting and disturbing others.
Considering this condition, the researcher designed a plan involving some alternative activities in cycle 2. Unlike the activity done in cycle one which was
