The writer also developed and varied the activities in order to enhance the students’ comprehension and provide the students the enjoyable teaching learning
activities. Since the designed material was based on the principle of Cooperative Learning, the activities in each of unit would be done in pair work, group work and
some activities were done individually. In pair work and group work, the students had opportunity to discuss the material, answered the questions, and solved the
problems. While in individual activities, the students had opportunity to develop themselves in learning English. This was aimed to measure the progress of each
student’s development in learning English related to the topic learnt by the students.
In this study, the writer tried to apply the principles of Cooperative Learning. The Cooperative Learning activities were shown in each part of the learning
materials and by the instruction given in each activity of the unit. The writer used individual work, pair-work, group work, presentation, games, role play, and
discussion. The detailed information would be explained in the following description.
a. Hello
In this section, the activities used are pair-work and group work. Some of them are individual work, however the students may discuss with friends. Since the aim of
this section is for activating the students’ prior knowledge, the students have opportunity to put forward what they have known about the topic discussed. The
instructions of this part are arranging pictures, matching pictures, answering questions and interviewing.
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b. Let’s Study It Together
In this section, the activities used are pair-work, group work, and individual work. All the activities in this section are based on the principles of Cooperative
Learning. There are subsections entitled Let’s Discuss and Are You Ready for the quiz?
in each unit in this section. The activities are based on the principle of Student Team Achievement Division STAD. The students have discussion about question
and answer based on the passage and name of things, and then the students take a quiz related to the topic discussed in order to measure each student’s understanding
after having the discussion in group of four.
While Jigsaw activities are commonly used in subsection entitled Let’s read
such as in unit 2. The students are arranged to make a group of four. Each group read its own reading text and it is not allowed to read other group’s part. The students
may open vocabulary list, use dictionary, or ask the teacher to figure out the meaning of difficult words. Then, three group members move to the other three groups to
share and explain about the content of the text in order to answer the questions. In the Group Discussion, students are given a question or a topic to be discussed in a
small group. After discussing the questions or topics, one of the students in the group will be a group representative to summarize the group’s discussion for the class.
Group Discussion activities are used in the subsection entitled Hello such as in unit
1. In the Think-Pair-Share, the students receive the question and find the response for the question. The students share the answer or response by interviewing other
students.
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c. Let’s Play
