The Purposes of VSS
e Bringing up small-group discussion to guide the students in comprehending the text.
Based on the explanation above, it can be concluded that the activity promotes the students to think critically. The activity does not
just ask the students to define the meaning of the word, but also they have to think of the reason for selecting the word. Therefore, this activity
could help the students to develop their high-order thinking skill since they would be able to solve the problem in this context, the students are
trained to define the words after observing the text and they need to tell the reason of selecting the words. The teacher’s role here is to give an
example how to deal with the activity and then let the students to participate actively in doing all of the tasks. For instance, the teacher
gives an example of how to choose an important word which has a big influence to comprehend the whole text. This modeling will help the
students to do the further activity that will be done in the small groups. The group work will encourage the students’ motivation to learn since
they can communicate to share ideas with the teacher and their friends in the same or different group.