Using Cooperative Learning Method to Improve the Paragraph Writing Ability of Class I Students of the English Education Department, Ahmad Dahlan University Yogyakarta

Soviyah, Soviyah (2016) Using Cooperative Learning Method to Improve the Paragraph Writing Ability of Class I Students of the English Education Department, Ahmad Dahlan University Yogyakarta. S2 thesis, UNY.

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Abstract

This study aims at improving the students' paragraph writing ability in English Education Department, Ahmad Dahlan University Yogyakarta in paragraph writing course Class I by using cooperative learning method. This research was a classroom action research. It was done collaboratively between the researcher and the collaborator lecturer who planned, acted, observed and reflected on the students’ learning paragraph writing using cooperative learning as a way of teaching. The research was done from May to July 2013. It took Paragraph Writing Class I of English Education Department of Ahmad Dahlan University, Yogyakarta in the Academic Year of 2012 / 2013 as the research setting. For the subjects of the research, it involved all students of Paragraph Writing Class I of English Education Department, Ahmad Dahlan University Yogyakarta, which amounted to the total of 29 students. Applying planning – acting – observing – reflecting procedures, the research was conducted in two cycles, three stages each with post test done in every end of the cycles. The instruments used were classroom observation sheet and checklist, interview guide, students’ feedback, vignette, tests and paragraph writing assessment. The study used a qualitative data analysis technique, emphasizing on action research data analysis. As a result, instead of numbers, the collected data were presented in the form of descriptions, pictures, tables, and charts. Though the analysis technique used was a qualitative technique, the quantitative technique was used as well. The quantitative data analysis was especially used to complement the qualitative analysis result. The results of the study show that the implementation of cooperative learning method in Paragraph Writing Class I is successful. It can be seen from the implementation of the main components of cooperative learning (small group cooperation, positive interdependence,individual accountability, equal participation and simultaneous interaction), which were not yet implemented before the research was done but were successfully implemented by the end of the research. The students’ paragraph writing ability improves as well. The improvement is shown through the increase of the number of the students in each defined category before and after the research was conducted. Using categories of A (excellent to very good), B (good to average), C (fair to poor), and D (very poor), it was found out that before the research was carried out, there were 5 students (17.24%) in category D, 11 students (37.93%) in category C and only 2 students (6.89%) in category A. By the end of the research, there were no students in category D, only 3 students (10.34%) in category C , 14 students (48.27%) in category B and 12 students (41.37%) in category A.

Item Type:	Thesis (S2)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	cooperative learning method, writing in English, paragraph writing
Subjects:	Bahasa dan Sastra > Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris
Divisions:	Sekolah Pascasarjana (SPS) > Program Pascasarjana > Linguistik Terapan
Depositing User:	Perpustakaan Pascasarjana
Date Deposited:	04 May 2016 03:11
Last Modified:	09 Nov 2022 03:05
URI:	http://eprints.uny.ac.id/id/eprint/32375

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