Improving Students’ Motivation
Through Colaborative Learning Strategies
(An Action research)
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1.Background
of the Study
Most of teacher
still focused their teaching activity on the delivery of a curriculum to
fulfill their target in teaching and learning process. They feel comfortable if
they can teach all of material from curriculum in time. They are rarely
thinking to the growth of their students physically and mentally. It is enough
for them if the students pay attention to the lesson quietly, work alone, and
stop talking. As the result students have traditionally been isolated communicatively
and physically. Teachers have lectured
and students have listened. Teachers-and the textbook-have been the sources of
knowledge and authority in the classroom.
In the
traditional model of the classroom, in which the curriculum is presented from a
textbook on one instructional level, the motivation students may diminish.
Feelings of success and a high motivation in learning only perform by the
students who are accustomed to the textbook-oriented. While those who cannot
master the textbook will be unmotivated and feel unpretentious.
The
academically talented students may not demonstrate their full academic
potential in the classroom. When one instructional level from the curriculum is
presented in a classroom, there will be no opportunity for some students to
achieve beyond that level provided. If grades and competition do not
particularly motivate the students, they may be quite satisfied to coast along
in school. These students may express a lack of motivation, which may manifest
itself in off-task behavior, lack of participation, and outward disinterest by
these students..
Hargis (1990:5)
suggests a theoretically different classroom. He speaks of placing students in
four to five-member groups of mixed ability to work together. In this grouping
there is motivation for all students to do well. This kind of strategies then
knows as a collaborative learning strategy. And research studies overwhelmingly
favor collaborative learning (CL) as the most effective form????????
