A Survey Of Collaborative Learning Perpectives Among Efl Senior High School Students

Abstract

Collaborative learning (CL) is a learning method that is suitable for students therefore they can further increase their self-confidence and learn to be more open to express their ideas more openly. CL also provides greater opportunities to create open spaces for students where students can collaborate through various creative ideas. Several researchers have conducted research on the experience of using collaborative learning at secondary and higher education levels. This research would like to enrich the research investigating collaborative learning for English classes. Therefore, this study conducted to identify students' perspectives while involving in collaborative learning methods in English classes, by finding out whether collaborative learning succeeded in making them feel active in class or not. This study uses a survey method which is quantitative research. Two hundred three students at two of the senior high schools at Yogyakarta have participated in this study by completing a collaborative learning perspectives questionnaire with 3 aspects of CL: there are academic benefits, social benefits and lifelong skills adopted from Ghavifekr (2020) The data analyzed using SPSS 22 and google sheet. The overall results of this study obtained that collaborative learning is beneficial for students in the English learning process with the highest mean score for academic benefits aspect (M=3.53) for social benefits aspect (M=3.42) and for lifelong skills aspect (M=3.59). Therefore, with various benefits obtained through collaborative learning. It is hoped that this research can help students and teachers to implement collaborative learning in the classroom.