COOPERATIVE LANGUAGE LEARNING It’s also known as a general instructional approach as collaborative learning It makes maximum use of cooperative activities involving pairs and small groups of learners in the classroom COOPERATIVE LEARNING COOPERATIVE LEARNING Promote communicative interaction in the classroom Learner -centered approach GOALS IN LANGUAGE TEACHING GOALS IN LANGUAGE TEACHING • To provide opportunities for naturalistic second language acquisition through the use of interactive pair and group avtivities. • To provide teachers with a methodology to enable them to achieve this goal. • To enable focused attention to particular lexical items, language structures, and communicative functions through the use of interactive tasks. • To provide opportunitities for learners to develop successful learning and communication strategies. • To enhance learner motivation and reduce learner stress and to create a positive affective classroom climate. TYPES OF LEARNING AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES Formal cooperative learning groups These last from one class period to several weeks Involve students working together to avhieve shared learning goals Informal Cooperative learning groups These are ad- hoc groups that last from a few minutes to a class period. To focus student attention or to facilitate learning during direct teaching Cooperative Base Groups These are long term, lasting for at least a year and consist of heterogeneous learning groups with stable membership To allow members to give each other the support, help, encouragement , and assistance they need to succeed academically K E Y E L E M E N T S Positive Interdependence Group Formation Individual Accountability Social Skills Structuring and Structures • Deciding on the size of the group: this will depend on the tasks they have to carry out, the age of the learners, and time limits for the lesson. Typical group size is from two to four. • Assigning students to groups: Groups can be teacher-selected, random, or student-selected. Teacher selected is recommended. • Student roles in groups: Each group member has a specific role to play in a group, such as noise monitor, turn-taker monitor, recorder, or summarizer. Team practice from common input – skills development and mastery of facts. • All students work on the same material. • The task is to make sure that everyone in the group knows the answer to a question and can explain how the answer was obteined. • This technique is good for review and for practice tests; The group takes the practice test together, but each student will eventually d8o an assignment or take a test individually. • This technique is effective in situations where the composition of the groups is unstable. Students can form new groups every day Jigsaw: differentiated but predetermined imput- evaluation and synthesis of facts and opinions. • Each group member receives adifferent piece of the information. • Students regroup in topic groups (expert groups) composed of people with the same piece to master the material and prepare to teach it. • Students synthesize the imformation through discussion. • Each student produces an assignment of part of a group project. • This method of organization may require team-building activities for both home groups and topic groups, long term group involvement, and rehearsal of presentation methods. • This method is very useful in the multilevel class, allowing for both homogeneous and heterogeneous grouping in terms of English proficiency. Coopertive projects: topics/resources selected by students discovery learning • Topics may be different for each group. • Students identify subtopics for each member. • Steering commitee may coordinate the work of the class as a whole. • Students research the information using resources such as library reference, interviews, visual media, internet. • Students synthesize their innformation for a group presentation • Each group presents to the whole class. . ACTIVITIES Formal cooperative learning groups These last from one class period to several weeks Involve students working together to avhieve shared learning goals Informal Cooperative learning. cooperative activities involving pairs and small groups of learners in the classroom COOPERATIVE LEARNING COOPERATIVE LEARNING Promote communicative interaction in the classroom Learner -centered. COOPERATIVE LANGUAGE LEARNING It’s also known as a general instructional approach as collaborative learning It makes maximum use of cooperative activities involving