THE EFFECT OF COLLABORATIVE DIALOGUE BUILDING ON THE STUDENTS’ LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL MASTERY

A STUDY AT THE SECOND GRADE STUDENT OF SMKN 1 KOTARAJA-EAST LOMBOK

Abstract

There are many methods to teach English as foreign language, either implicitly or explicitly. Teaching is not only telling or transferring the knowledge to the student, but the important one is how to make the student active and learn by themselves. One of the methods to do that is collaborative dialogue building among students. The method engages the students to interact with others by giving task to do with their friends and it makes student active. This method derives from Mariel Swain’s collaborative dialogue (2001). Drawing upon an experimental design, this present study entitled “Investigating the Effects of Collaborative Dialogue Building on the Students’ Lexical and Grammatical Mastery: A Study at the Second Grade Student of SMKN 1 Kotaraja - East Lombok” focusing in finding is there any effect of collaborative dialogue building on lexical and grammatical mastery of English as Foreign Language learners.  Forty two Indonesian students of English as Foreign Language learners at SMKN 1 Kotaraja – East Lombok was as sample of this study, and were randomly divided into two groups: collaborative and individual groups. The learners in the collaborative group performed the tasks in groups of 4-5, while their counterparts in the individual group consist of 21 students performed all the tasks individually, no interaction with the others. The learners’ vocabulary and grammar knowledge and mastery were assessed using Oxford Placement Test, Vocabulary Test and researcher-made test in two occasions: pre-test and post-test. A set of independent sample t-test from Arikunto (2007) was run to compare the groups’ mastery of lexical and grammatical. The results revealed that the collaborative dialogue building method had significantly influence on lexical and grammatical mastery of the group after giving the treatment. But it still needs to do the further research at different setting for the comparison of the current research result.

Keywords: Collaborative dialogue, lexical, grammatical, lexical and grammatical mastery.