Meaningful learning refers to achieve the student deep understanding about the topic, the material, the concept and the idea. Meaningful learning is active, constructive and long lasting and the student fully engaged in the learning process. The role of the teacher in meaningful learning is to direct student to have the critical thought, to be more active in classroom and also guide the group process and participation in learning process. Besides, the role of the student is to recall the previous knowledge related to the material, be more active in the class and to discover the material. The challenges of having meaningful learning for the student, most of the student do not have the motivation to learn the lesson, it will be difficult for them to achieve the learning goal. In addition, based on Balayneh (2013) the student may also face the challenges of having meaningful learning in build their background knowledge. The other challenges for teacher are the student have different ability in learning and the teacher should connect the students background knowledge with the current material. Based on Vallori (2014) said that there are some step to achieve the meaningful learning in classroom. The first thing, is through the open work, the student learning process will be reinforced because of the activity is the student can bring any source to the class related to the topic. The second one is giving the motivation to the student it makes the student more interest to study. The next one is collaborative work, the student works in pairs to do the discussion. The last one is the student should be more active and have the critical thinking in learning process.
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