THE EFFECTS OF COOPERATIVE AND TRADITIONAL LEARNING TOWARDS THE STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN JAWI

Jawi is an element that has been taught in national schools since the introduction of j-QAF program in the National education system. The curriculum was introduced to inculcate interest in learning the Jawi script among the students and thereby mastering the reading and writing skills of Jawi. However, until now some students are unable to master Jawi. The statistics of the achievement for the first cohort of the j-QAF programme released by the Curriculum Development Department of the Malaysian Education Ministry in 2005, showed that the achievement was inconsistent. Thus, the purpose of this research is to see how far cooperative and traditional learning affect the students’ achievement level in Jawi. The quasi-experimental method used in this research involved two groups of students -- the experimental group (Cooperative Method) and the controlled group (Traditional Method) who had undergone the pre-test and the post-test. The result shows that the cooperative method is more effective. It is hoped that this research can inspire the teachers involved in implementing this cooperative method in their teaching. Furthermore, the result of this research can also be a guideline to the ministry in formulating a better and effective cooperative teaching and cooperative learning module for Jawi.