An Overview of Cooperative Learning in Theory and Practice: A reflection from students’ perspective

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10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.301How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Cooperative Learning (CL); group work; Focus Group Discussion (FGD)

Abstract

Popularly known as a core of cooperative learning, group work is frequently applied in classroom. However, some researches revealed that collaborative atmosphere was hardly found in the groupwork. The available researches mainly discussed the students’ perspective through questionnaires and only a few tried to picture the students’ beliefs from group discussion. Therefore, the current study investigated the students’ attitudes towards group work by asking them to share their experiences while working in the group. and figured out how such attitudes influenced their interaction with the other members in the group. The empirical data were obtained from questionnaires, group discussion and discourse analysis. The participants of the research were 51 sophomores who got involved in filling in a questionnaire and some of them were taken to join FGD in which they voluntarily express their opinions regarding group work. In addition, the study also managed to record student’s interaction in groups. The data showed that the students’ interactions in the group work did not go as cooperative learning suggested. The five elements of cooperative learning hardly found in the group. Most students in the group relied on one person to do the whole task assigned. As the result, some of them think that group work was a waste of time. This finding suggested that the group work would fail to promote cooperative learning if interdependence and individual accountability were not enforced. Therefore, acting as a facilitator, the teacher is supposed to find the way to cater the interdepended and fortify the sense of collaboration among students.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Martina Mulyani
AU  - Fuad Abdul Hamied
AU  - Bachrudin Musthafa
PY  - 2019/06
DA  - 2019/06
TI  - An Overview of Cooperative Learning in Theory and Practice: A reflection from students’ perspective
BT  - Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 458
EP  - 464
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.301
DO  - 10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.301
ID  - Mulyani2019/06
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