center on students’ exploration or application of the course material. It is not only the teacher’s presentation.
In line with, Collaborative learning appears as one of the promising learning concept offering some new views in learning a second language. Particularly
collaborative learning give learner the opportunity to think for themselves, compare their thinking with others, make a small research project and investigates subject
matter with other learner; it can encourage students to think logically based on their mind and their belief.
Based on the theories mentioned above, the writer inspired to discuss the effectiveness of collaborative learning activities in teaching and learning vocabulary.
How if Collaborative learning is used by teachers in English language teaching and learning and compared with grammar translation method.
Therefore, in this ‘Skripsi’ the writer would like to use the collaborative learning in teaching vocabulary in order to know its effectiveness in teaching
vocabulary. Based on the statement above, the topic that will be discussed by the writer is teaching vocabulary through collaborative learning method.
B. Limitation and Formulation of Problem
In this paper, the writer limits the subject matters to discuss teaching vocabulary trough collaborative learning at the third year students of SMK YAPRI
Yayasan Pendidikan Raudlatul Ilmiyah Cilandak. Then the writer uses grammar translation methods as a comparison to measure the effectiveness of the method.
The formulation of problem in this paper is “whether the using of collaborative learning improve the outcome of vocabulary teaching at the third year
students of SMK YAPRI Yayasan Pendidikan Raudlatul Ilmiyah Cilandak than grammar translation method?, or in other words, is the average gained score of the
students of experiment class higher than the controlled class?.
C. Objective of Study
This study aims to know the influence of optimizing collaborative learning in vocabulary teaching at the third year students of SMK YAPRI Yayasan Pendidikan
Raudlatul Ilmiyah Cilandak.
D. Research Method
In writing this paper, the writer uses field research, which aims to collect the data by taking some samples from the third year students of SMK YAPRI Yayasan
Pendidikan Raudlatul Ilmiyah Cilandak from variables. Then, the data will be analyzed by using the product moment theory. In social science, this field research is
known as a quantitative research. This research is an experimental study in which the experimental class and the
controlled class were treated by the teachers who has the same educational background from State Islamic University in order to eliminate the bias. The writer
told both of the teacher about the way of teaching and the lesson planning. Before the treatment writer gave pre-test as comparison with the post-test were
given after the treatment. It was given to know how the influence of collaborative learning to vocabulary knowledge of the students.
The treatment was done for eight meeting. After eight meetings the writer gave the test as we called post-tests to both of the class. The test was same in qualities and
quantities to keep the reliability of the research. A week he had two meeting divided into four hour lessons 50 Minutes each
in control class and experimental class. It was meant two hours per day. The writer divided them into two kinds teaching learning. In one meeting is one hour were usual
teaching learning as school recommended. And one hour were the research. When all the researches have done, the writer used the t-test to measure the gain
of experimental class and controlled class.
E. Organization of Writing
