Model of English Learning Based on Collaborative Theory to Improve Indonesian’ Spoken Communication Ability

Abstract

English proficiency is a requirement that must be mastered by a student. The competition and the global society to force students to be fluent in English without having been uprooted from Islamic values. A teacher needs to be creative and innovative English language teaching so that learning English becomes attractive for students. finally student be motivated to continue learning English. The objective of this study is to know the effects of collaborative learning model; theory of behaviorism, cognitivism and constructivism on the improvement of English spoken communication ability. This study use quasi experimental design with Posttest-Only, Non-Equivalent Control Group Design. The sample of this research were student’s of State Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN) Palu. The instrument in this research was speaking English test ability. The tests were carried out in five times with different learning themes. Data analysis was performed by descriptive statistics and inference and presented in the form of percentages, frequency, min and statistical analysis in t test comparison (t-test) and Pearson correlation test. The researcher finds distribution of scores for the students’ spoken communication ability posttest is normal and variance-covariance for the dependent variables is homogeneous across the independent variables.  The researcher finds a significant difference between the experimental class taught by a learning model of three theories collaboration and controclass taught by conventional learning model.  The result of students] spoken communication ability on first test had higher compared second test. Similarly, also with the students’spoken communication abilities between the second tests with the third test, the third test with the fourth test, and the fourth test with the fifth test was very significant. The researcher also finds increased English spoken communication ability in experimental class. Improvement of spoken communication is due to model of learning english based on collaborative theory

Keywords: Collaborative Learning Model, Theory, English Spoken Communication Ability