working together to accomplish shared goals. Within cooperative situations, individuals seek outcome beneficial to themselves and all other group members.
CL is the instructional use of small groups through which students work together to maximize their own and each other’s learning Johnson in Richards, 2001:
192. Thirdly, CL tends to use the discussion group, group work, and pair work. The groups are used to give a change from the normal pace of classroom events
and to improve the amount of student participation in lessons. Through CL, it is expected that the involvement of all students can
maximize their learning so that their achievements increase, especially in comprehending the English text.
B. Problem Statement
Based on the background of the study, the writer formulates research questions as follows:
1. Can collaborative learning improve the students’ capability in comprehending
the English texts? 2.
What happens when collaborative learning is applied to improve the students’ capability in comprehending the English texts?
C. The Objectives of the study
The objective of the research is to examine whether or not collaborative learning can promote the students’ capability in comprehending the
English texts. Besides, the research is also designed to study what happens when
collaborative learning is applied to improve the students’ capability in comprehending the English texts.
D. The Benefits of the study.
The research result is expected to be able to give some benefits for the teacher who teaches English at MAN Sukoharjo, because the teacher can get
description about how to use the teaching technique in teaching English effectively to senior high school students in which it should be suited to their
characteristics. Besides, it can lead him or her how to create an interesting and comforting atmosphere in classroom so that students will not feel boring to join
the learning activity. In addition, their motivation to master the English texts will increase.
Meanwhile, the benefits for students, it can serve them the more comforting and interesting situation inside the classroom so that they will be more
interested to join the class. Dealing with their capability in comprehending the English texts, they will get easier to master it through collaborative learning and
they will be able to increase their English achievement. The benefit for readers probably will be used as the reference for
those who want to conduct a research in English teaching process, especially in improving the students’ capability in comprehending the English text types. At
least, it can be used as an input or only a large knowledge in English teaching process.
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