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e Checker explainer. The function is to check that everyone agrees
before a group discussion is made and check that everyone understands the assignment and what is needed to finish. The last,
the students have to be a Quite Captain. The function is to make sure the group does not disturb other group.
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Another student‟s role in cooperative learning can be stated that the student as a member of a group must work collaboratively on task with other
group members, because it is a primary role for the students in cooperative learning and also the students have to be the directors of their own learning. The
students are taught to plan, monitor, and evaluate their own learning.
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Although Cooperative learning is learning together with groups, the students have to take
the task individually.
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Based on the explanations above, the writer assumes that it is possible for Indonesian
‟s students to do those roles when their teacher applies cooperative learning in the classroom. When the teacher applies it, the students have
opportunities to be an explainer, an encourager, a monitor and they can share with their friends to accomplish their lessons. Because, learning by sharing with their
classmates can make the social interactions and help students to learn for one another‟s strength and limitations and to accept these differences.
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2. The Teachers’ role in Cooperative Learning
According to Richards, there are some roles for the teachers when the teacher want to implement cooperative learning in the classroom
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. Below are the brief
explanations about the teachers‟ roles in cooperative learning:
a The teachers have to create highly structured and well-organized learning
environment in the classroom.
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Carolyn Kessler, Cooperative Language Learning a Teacher’s Resource Book,
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hill, inc. , 1992, p. 10.
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Richards. loc. cit.
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Diane Larsen Freeman, Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, p. 168.
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Killen, loc. cit.
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Richards, loc, cit.
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b The teachers have to assign students to groups and roles, and also the
teachers have to select the materials and time. c
The important role for the teacher in cooperative learning is that of facilitator of learning. When they worked in the group, the teachers must
move around the class helping students and groups. d
The teacher as a facilitator in the classroom must give feedback for the students, redirecting the group with questions, encouraging thinking,
supplying resources, and also encouraging the group to solve its own problem.
While according to Kessler, the roles of teacher in cooperative learning is as an observer in the classroom. As an observer, the teacher has to know the
learners ‟ progress and also the teachers must find out learner‟s interest, strength,
needs and feelings.
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Based on the explanations above, the writer would like to summarize that the teacher has somes roles in conducting cooperative learning, those are: the
teacher has to manage the classroom, the teacher as a facilitators, and the teacher as an observer. The writer believes that the teacher in Indonesia can understand
those roles, because cooperative learning is possible to learn and to use it by the teachers.
5. The Advantages of Cooperative Learning
There are some advantages for the teacher and the students in conducting cooperative learning in the classroom. Below are the benefits of cooperative
learning. a
Applying cooperative learning can improve the student‟s academic learning and social skills; and for the teachers, it is really helpful in
managing the classroom.
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b In doing and learning academic task, cooperative learning has benefits for
high and – low students when they work as a team. The students who are
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Carolyn Kessler, op.. cit., p.167
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Orlich, op. cit., p. 269.
