THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COOPERATIVE LEARNING TO IMPROVE STUDENTS SPEAKING COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS AT GRADE VII OF SMP PGRI 174 CIKUPA TANGERANG Rika Yusniah Alumni STKIP BANTEN Reynita Andriana Dosen STKIP Banten ABSTRACK:The technique of collecting data was by using a test. After the data of the effectiveness of cooperative learning and to improve students speaking communicative skills were collected, the data were statistically computed to find out the correlation between the two varibales. The writer analyzes the data based on the effectiveness of cooperative learning to improve students speaking communicative skills. This data is analyzed by using correlation product moment. The value of correlation coefficient obtained is 0,544, while the criteria of the correlation between 0,40 to 0,70 are considered moderate. It means that the level of relationship of the correlation coefficient of the two variables is moderate. In this research the variable Y is influenced too high by the variable X and the other way the varble is also influenced too high by the variable Y. For the contribution variable X to Variable Y, the writer get influence 29,60 % applying the effectiveness of cooperative learning to improve students speaking communicative skills and 70,4 % left is influenced by other factor, it means that the effectiveness of cooperative learning to improve students speaking communicative skills at grade VII of SMP PGRI 174 Cikupa Tangerang has quite influence. Keyword: EFFECTIVENESS OF COOPERATIVE LEARNING, STUDENTS SPEAKING 1. INTRODUCTION The learning process in the Education Unit Level Curriculum (KTSP) requires the active participation of all students. Thus, student centered learning activities, the teacher as a motivator and facilitator in it for the class more attractive atmosphere. Jigsaw cooperative learning techniques are considered particularly suitable to be applied in education in Indonesia, especially for Junior High school students because of them in accordance with national culture that values mutual cooperation. Based on the above information, the researcher is interested to Cooperative Learning , because It is a kind of activity guided by the aim or purpose to be accomplished, which suggests a change from the traditional teacher centered teaching method to a focus on learner centered learning. Some believe that the traditional teaching methods only stress theoretical content and neglect training of any skills involving effective interaction between both teacher-student and student-student in the EFL (English as Foreign Language) classroom, while 1
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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COOPERATIVE LEARNING TO IMPROVE
STUDENTS SPEAKING COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS AT GRADE VII OF
SMP PGRI 174 CIKUPA TANGERANG
Rika Yusniah
Alumni STKIP BANTEN
Reynita Andriana Dosen STKIP Banten
ABSTRACK:The technique of collecting data was by using a test. After the data
of the effectiveness of cooperative learning and to improve students speaking
communicative skills were collected, the data were statistically computed to find
out the correlation between the two varibales. The writer analyzes the data based
on the effectiveness of cooperative learning to improve students speaking
communicative skills. This data is analyzed by using correlation product moment.
The value of correlation coefficient obtained is 0,544, while the criteria of the
correlation between 0,40 to 0,70 are considered moderate. It means that the level
of relationship of the correlation coefficient of the two variables is moderate. In
this research the variable Y is influenced too high by the variable X and the other
way the varble is also influenced too high by the variable Y. For the contribution
variable X to Variable Y, the writer get influence 29,60 % applying the
effectiveness of cooperative learning to improve students speaking
communicative skills and 70,4 % left is influenced by other factor, it means that
the effectiveness of cooperative learning to improve students speaking
communicative skills at grade VII of SMP PGRI 174 Cikupa Tangerang has quite
influence.
Keyword: EFFECTIVENESS OF COOPERATIVE LEARNING, STUDENTS
SPEAKING
1. INTRODUCTION
The learning process in the Education Unit Level Curriculum (KTSP) requires the
active participation of all students. Thus, student centered learning activities, the
teacher as a motivator and facilitator in it for the class more attractive atmosphere.
Jigsaw cooperative learning techniques are considered particularly suitable to be
applied in education in Indonesia, especially for Junior High school students
because of them in accordance with national culture that values mutual
cooperation.
Based on the above information, the researcher is interested to Cooperative
Learning , because It is a kind of activity guided by the aim or purpose to be
accomplished, which suggests a change from the traditional teacher centered
teaching method to a focus on learner centered learning. Some believe that the
traditional teaching methods only stress theoretical content and neglect training of
any skills involving effective interaction between both teacher-student and
student-student in the EFL (English as Foreign Language) classroom, while
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cooperative learning will improve students’ confidence in using a foreign
language and as lingua franca, encourage students in creative thinking and active
learning, and help students gain English speaking skills intuitively. Others argue,
however, that the cooperative learning method has some limitations related to our
current junior high school students situations such as too many students in one
class, uneven development across speaking, and a tradition of task-aimed teaching
methods. The cooperative learning method has gained a considerable reputation in
English as a foreign language learning classrooms or a second language
classrooms all over the world. Meanwhile, it is also very important for people to
enhance cooperation with others to improve speed and success levels for assigned
tasks. These address social needs and academic needs for students. However, the
results of students’ English proficiency, especially in English speaking skills, have
not improved satisfactorily even after more than ten years of formal instructions.
Students who demonstrate sub-standard English speaking performance are
troubling since speaking skill is central to learning process and academic
achievement in other content areas. Therefore, the purpose of this research paper
is to determine whether or not cooperative learning has a positive effectiveness on
speaking skills. A related purpose is to discover the limitations of cooperative
learning to be carried out in Indonesia and to make some recommendations to
resolve these problems.
Therefore, a researcher is being challenged to help student’s problems to
conduct research and get best solutions for improving speaking skills. The
treatments which are given some steps to the students, such as; first, acknowledge
thoughts ideas or feelings, second, Say it different words, forth, Ask and open –
ended question, fifth, Summarize and clarify , the last ,Give opinions. It can make
them widely insight into the understanding of speaking skills, give high
motivation for speaking that they will not get failure but get good experience,
recognize about some good learning strategies, enrich new vocabularies which
make easier to speak or describe something, make discussion about some
interesting topics in the text from simple topic until difficult topic which
The objective of this research, she wants to understand about students’