Cooperative Learning Strategies

The Implementation of Cooperative Learning Strategy to Teach English to Students with Different Learning Style

Learning is an activity that certain do by everyone in order to get knowledge. In learning process we acquaint that there are two method of learning. The early method is cooperative learning which has been designed in order to make the students learn together in a group. The oldest method is traditional approach. Then, learning itself obviously has a certain strategy. Study by Weinstein and Mayer (1986) explain that learning strategy has objective to motivate and facilitate the learner in select, acquires, organize or integrate new knowledge. Then when we talk about learning language there are some styles that used by teacher to

The basic aspects include positive interdependence, face-to-face interaction, individual and group accountability, group behaviors, and group processing. So, there are some different characteristic of cooperative learning and traditional learning. Cooperative learning emphasize that all of learners have to be master on certain material and the teacher will observe their process of discussion. While, in traditional learning the teacher only focused on one student who has mastered the material without observe the other students in a group. So, in cooperative learning students are divided into small group. Each group consists of four until six members. Then, the teacher gives them a certain problem to solve together in the group. Each student has to be active and understand about the material or the answer. The teacher will observe the students’ group discussion. He observe whether his all of students have understood the material or not. The cooperative learning obviously different with the traditional approach which the students’ understanding is not be the teacher interest as long as there are one student who has master in the material. Same in the Stofflett’s statement (1998) said that traditional approach has characteristic that the students have to accept all knowledge which is given by the teacher without deliver various

Here I will explain about the implementation of cooperative learning jigsaw. In a school with the students who learn English as foreign language, jigsaw is good method. By learning in a peer group they will more motivate to be the best than other friends. The step of the implementation jigsaw is, first if there are 30 students in the class divide them into six groups. So, each group consists of 5 members. Then take one group as the expert group which will explain the other group about the material. The others five groups still have to discuss about the material, each member has different part of material. So, they have their responsibility to understanding their part. After the study or reading session finish, the expert will present their material to the other group one by one. Then the 5 other groups follow the presentation and give question to the