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The teacher asks a question to the students. The question can be varied; It can be very general or specific. Teacher makes sure
everyone knows
at least
a way
to describe
the answerthingspeopleplace.
c. Phase 3 : Thinking with together
Students unite their opinion on the question and answer. Then they have to make sure that each member of the team knows the answer.
d. Phase 4 : Answering
Teacher calls one particular number, and then student whose number is called will answer that question by discussing it before with hisher
group member.
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THE STUDY A.
Research Question
This study was conducted to answer the research question: What were the students
’ responses through the application of Cooperative Learning type Number Head Together at the First Year Students of SMPN 2 Tuntang?
B. Type of Research
This study was a descriptive research to describe the behaviors and responses of the students over the use of Cooperative Learning using Numbered Head Together
strategy. The researcher gathered data from the class activities and analyzed the data into descriptive qualitative report. The researcher provided more information
specifically on the research instrument and the procedure applied in this study.
C. Context of the Study
To answer the research question above, the study was conducted at a State Junior High School Sekolah Menengah Pertama Negeri II Tuntang, Kab. Semarang. This
school was not a favorite school, which means that, according to the teacher, most of the students who enrolled in this school were the students who were not accepted to
study at other schools. The teacher also said that most of the students were from middle and lower social
classes and could be said that education wasn’t important for them. It could be proven by the participation of the parents to support their children.
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Such as when the teacher was giving homework or an invitation letter to meet the class teacher, just some of the parents participated on this meeting and just some of
the parents helped their children to do the homework.
By looking at the context above, the researcher was interested in knowing what the students’ responses were through the application of NHT strategy in this school.
D. Participants of the Study
The participants of this study were the 1
st
year of junior high school at SMPN II Tuntang, Kab. Semarang in the academic year of 2013-2014. There were 7 classes,
which were labeled A-G. In the research, the researcher only took one class as the sample class VIIG. This class consists of 35 thirty five students whose ages were
between 12-13 years old. Based on the English teacher of the 1
st
year at this school, VIIG is the most passive students among all classes. That’s why the teacher prefers to
apply the NHT strategy in this VIIG class as the way to make the students more active.
E. Data Collection Instruments
In collecting the data, the researcher used observation note and interview. Those two instruments could be further explained as follows:
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1.
Classroom Observation
Classroom observation was used to see the application of the model NHT learning and to determine the involvement of the students or the students’
responses during the learning process. The observation which was filled in during the learning process by the researcher can be found in Appendix 1.
2. Interview
To support the observation note, the researcher conducted a structured interview. The interview was held during the observation from February 17
th
until May 23
rd
2014. There were two interviews. The first interview was with the English class teacher to gain information about students
’ actitivies during the learning process and the second was interviewing 10 students from the
class. The interview with the students was for gaining the information about the
students’ responses when the teacher use Cooperative Learning using NHT technique in class. From those students, the researcher only took two
students out of 10 students per observation to be interviewed straightly after the lesson. There are 5 questions for the teacher and 5 questions for the
students. The interview questions were using Bahasa Indonesia as shown in Appendix 2.
