THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INTEGRATED COOPERATIVE LEARNING METHOD FOR READING
AND WRITING TO IMPROVE THE COMPETENCE OF WRITING NEWS EXPOSITION AMONG
STUDENTS OF MADRASAH TSANAWIYAH
This research attempts to review the effectiveness of integrated cooperative learning method for
reading and writing to improve the competence of writing news exposition among students of Madrasah
Tsanawiyah. Writing competence is skill that is important to be acquired by students since elementary education.
The learning of writing may be enjoyable to students if the method with pleasure is used. Therefore, Integrated
Cooperative Method of Reading and Writing is a method to increase the interest and enthusiasm of learning
among children to the writing and to develop these through cooperative pattern among students. A fundamental
idealism underscoring the model is that a person tends to cooperate and compete against each other. Method of
research is quasi-experiment while research design is one-group pre-test post-test design. This research design is
non-equivalent pretest-posttest control-group design. By this design, experiment group (A) and control group (B)
are selected without a random assignment procedure. Both groups are subjected to pretest and posttest. Only
experiment group (A) is treated (Creswell, 2009:242). Result of research indicates the effectiveness of Integrated
Cooperative Method of Reading and Writing to improve the competence of writing news exposition among
students. It is proved by significant improvement in all aspects of students’ writing competence after treatment,
such as content of exposition, organization of exposition, vocabulary mastery, language mastery and sentence
setting, and the fulfillment of norm and spelling of words. The improvement of each aspect is shown by content
of exposition improved to 12.33 %, organization of exposition improved to 15.00 %, vocabulary mastery
improved to 11.50 %, language mastery and sentence setting both improved to 12.13 %, and the fulfillment of
norm and spelling of words improved to 15.33 %.
Keywords: integrated cooperative learning, reading and writing, news expositio
