The Students’ Experience on Group Work in the Conversational English Class  

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Muamaroh

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 61st TEFLIN International Conference : English Language Curriculum Development: Implications for Innovations in Language Policy and Planning, Pedagogical Practices, and Teacher Professional Development, Solo, 7 - 9 October 2014, page 1088-1091.
Topik: Group work; the conversational English class; cooperative learning; spoken English ability
Fulltext: THE STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCE ON GROUP WORK.pdf (8.1MB)

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The objective of this study was to explore students’ experience on group work in their conversational English class. The participants of this study were one hundred and twenty-seven students from Bachelor degree students in Department of English Education in a private University in central Java. The instruments used to gather data were test, questionnaires, interviews, and class observation. This study used experimental research using quantitative and qualitative analysis. Only qualitative analysis was used for the purpose of this paper. The finding discussed on this paper was part of my dissertation in investigating students’ spoken English using group work and cooperative learning. The study found that students both in the experimental and control classes perceived both positive and negative experiences when they worked in groups. Working in groups enabled students to gradually get to know their friends better and they became accustomed to sharing ideas in English among classmates. The steps to group students into small groups which improved their spoken English ability were let them freely choose their partners in order to make them feel comfortable. Second, choose the group members whose speaking level was the same. Third, choose their partners whose English speaking level was still the same but with different members from previous meeting. Fourth, choose their group members whose speaking level was different. The last step was let them choose their own partners again, but with the requirement that they always had to choose different partners for each meeting.

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