COOPERATIVE-CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ COMPREHENSION IN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Abstract

Joyful and cooperative learning athmosphere will truly imboost students’ learning. Moreover over past sixty years the language teaching focus shift to students centered learning. Indeed cooperative learning is mostly advocated. In cooperative learning, students develop their own understanding of teaching materials while at the same time, they also encourage and help their friends in the same groups to comprehend teaching materials and get better understanding. All group members must be active and have responsibility to achieve group’s goal. The role of teachers to monitor the group process and result is essential so there will be no dependent member.
Most study showed that cooperative learning is able to encourage students to overcome their difficulties in language learning since peer discussion and peer support help them. Thus, students’ comprehension in language learning improves.