Cooperative Language Learning

Question 1

Cooperative Language Learning
Background

Answer 1

Cooperative language learning is an interactive approach to language learning that is authentic and genuine and takes place between two or more students.
The goal of this approach is to create meaningful learning experiences that help students develop genuine fluency in new language.
Cooperative learning consists of groups of students working together in a cooperative manner to complete a task, an activity or a project. While working together, the students have meaningful interaction with one another in the target language.
Both cooperative and collaborative learning refer to students working together in a group toward a goal, but collaborative groupings may also refer to teachers and students, parents and students, students and the community, or the school and the family collaborating.

Question 2

Cooperative Language Learning
Strengths

Answer 2

When students are interacting in groups, they are required to use authentic and fairly fluent communications skills, which prepare them for the actual communication skills they will need in real life.

Question 3

Cooperative Language Learning
Weaknesses

Answer 3

For group work to be successful, it must be carefully planned. A weakness in this method is that some teachers may just put students in groups without planning and find that the groups are not particularly successful. Some students may resist cooperative work if they do not understand the purpose.