The effect of cooperative learning on the writing skill of low english proficiency in lower secondary school students / Collin Laja Naga

The main aim of this research paper is to identify the effective learning strategy to teach writing skills in order to help the low English proficiency students in lower secondary schools in the Kuching District. This study focused on the use of a selected cooperative learning strategy specified specially Student Achievement Division (STAD) an instructional strategy designed and developed by Robert Slavin at the Johns Hopkin University. This teaching strategy is evaluated on its effectiveness based on the pretest-posttest design. There were 24 form one students from SMK St. Mary, Kuching and SMK St Thomas, Kuching who took part as a sample in this study.