The effect of cooperative learning on the writing skills of low english proficiency in upper primary school students/ Ettin Lambat

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 upper primary 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 primary five students from SK Jalan Arang and SK St Faith who took part as a sample in this study.