Cooperative Learning Technique and Writing Hortatory Exposition Text

Abstract

Cooperative learning technique is an educational approach which aims to organize classroom activities into academic and social learning experiences. This technique is supposed to help students evaluate their knowledge which leads them to produce a better comprehension of writing hortatory exposition text(HET). Hortatory exposition text is a type of text that provides details to support an opinion. It means that the text declares something to the readers by giving supporting statement and signal to convince it. To make the influence stronger, the speaker or writer gives some arguments as the fundamental reasons why something is the case. Writing is used as a means to rearrange information improving higher-order thinking. It can deliver chance for students to think through arguments and use higher -order thinking skills to solve complex problems. This supposed to help students evaluate their knowledge which leads them to produce a better comprehension of the text. This research sheds light on the importance of using cooperative learning technique in teaching writing hortatory exposition text in the classroom. So, it consists of three sections , section one includes problems, aims, and limits of the study with information's about cooperative learning technique, section two about writing hortatory exposition text, section three related to writing skill, and Section Four: The Obtained Results. Finally, the research ends up with some conclusions.