c. Individual Accountability
Each member has their own role in a group, it also means one student has different responsibility from other member. Cooperative learning will give chance for
students to develop themselves through group activities.
d. Development of Social Skills
To achieve the goal in cooperative learning both intelligence and social skill are needed. Students with good intelligence are not enough to succeed in cooperative
learning. Effective communication, understanding appreciation of others, decision making, problem solving, conflict resolution, and compromise are needed to learn in
how to cooperate with other members as a team, assuming that cooperation is needed in cooperative learning.
e. Group Evaluation
Groups of students should be able to evaluate their project, goal, and discussion progress. They can evaluate their progress during class discussion by
communicate with other group.
2.4.2 The Advantages of Cooperative Learning
Cooperative learning gives positive contributions by improving classroom climate, providing supportive learning, and giving opportunities for students to use
the language. Crandall in Arnold, 1999:233 mentions some benefits of cooperative learning as follows:
a. Reducing Anxiety
Fear of giving wrong answer is always happened to foreign language learners. This anxiety commonly happens when teachers ask questions and only few
students can answer. This situation may be reduced when teachers give opportunities to students to give contribution based on their ability and they can
share with their friends before informing it to entire class, cooperative learning gives those facilities to students.
b. Promoting Interaction
Expressing an idea in foreign language becomes a frustrating situation for students. Fear of being ashamed when doing mistakes could be a problem in
language learning, they may not learn the language appropriately. Students may not feel fear in cooperative learning they will be given opportunities to interact
with their friends before sharing an idea.
c. Providing Comprehensible input and output
Input in cooperative learning includes group interaction and teachers explanation, and output includes an oral report, a written summary or a
completed form. In order to make good output, the input should be effective there must be productive contribution in group activity.
d. Increasing Self-confidence and Self-esteem
Group interdependence will improve cooperative learning activities. Interdependence may improve learners’ self-confidence and self-esteem through
productive group activities.
e. Increasing Motivation
Motivation will lead students to do more, especially in learning activities. In cooperative learning, motivation can be found through teachers’ instruction, and
peer support.
2.4.3 The Disadvantages of Cooperative Learning
