THE EFFECT OF COLLABORATIVE LEARNING ON STUDENTS' ACTIVENESS AND ABILITY IMPROVEMENT IN ENGLISH LEARNING

Abstract

Student activeness in learning English needs to be improved. This is because English is one of the things students need in education and everyday life. However, many students are not focused, do not play an active role, and find it difficult to understand the material. One of these conditions occurs because the teacher still uses conventional methods and does not involve students in the learning process, so students are also not encouraged to develop. This classroom action research aimed to discover the application of the collaborative learning model to increase students' activeness and abilities in the English subject Simple Past Tense (Basic Competency 3.10 and 4.10) class VIII. The research results show collaborative learning can improve students' activity and learning outcomes. These results are proven by the increase in learning outcomes in each cycle that is carried out until it reaches 100% completeness in the second cycle, and all students exceed the KKM (70) in cycle 3 with a class average of 87.