Cooperative Language Learning

Presented by :Group I

Member of Group

Nur Holipah @ oyiiep

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Syarisah @cha_adjaah

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BackgroundCooperative Learning is an approach to teaching that makes maximum use of cooperative activities involving pairs and small group of learners in the classroom.

Goals of CLL:

To provide opportunities for naturalistic second language acquisition through the use of interactive pair and group activitiesTo provide teacher with a methodology

To enable focused attention to particular lexical items, language structures, and communicative function

To provide opportunities 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

ApproachTheory of Language

Premise 1 : Learn to talk

Premise 3 : Cooperative

rules or maxim

Premise 5 : Cooperative Structured

Interactional activities

Premise 4 : everyday

conversational interaction

Premise 2 : most talk / speech

Theory of Learning Develop communicative competence

Practise in conversing

Develop learners

Six Learning Advantages for ESL students in CLL Calssroom : Increased frequency and variety of second language Support cognitive development and increased language skills Opportunities to integrate language with content-based instruction Opportunities to include a greater variety of curricular materials Freedom for teachers to master new professional skills, particularly does emphasizing communication

Opportunities for students to act as resources for each others, thus assuming a more active role in their learning

Design

Develop communic

ative competenc

e

Develop

critical

thingking skills

Foster Cooperation General Objectives

Students achievement

Motivation or positive affective

Having experiences

Specific Objectives

The Syllabus CLL does not assume any particular form of language syllabus.

Types of learning and teaching actoivities (Johnson et al. (1994:4-5)) :

Formal cooperative learning groups.Informal cooperative learning groups.Cooperative base groups.

Key elements of succesful group based learning CL (Olsen and Kagan (1992)) :Positive

interdependenceGroup Formation

Individual accountability

Social skills

Structuring and structures

Three major kinds of cooperative learning task and their learning focus. Coelho (1992b: 132) :

Team practise for common

input

Jigsaw: diferentiated

but predetermine

d input

Cooperative projects :

topics/resources selected

by students/disc

overy learning

Learn teamwork skill

Directors of their own

learning

Plan, monit

or, and

evaluate

Learner

roles

Teacher rolesCreate a highly structured and well organized learning environment Setting goals

Planning and structuring task

Estabilishing the physical arrangement

Assigning students to group and roles

Selecting material and time

Facilitator of learning

The role of instructional materials

Create opportunities for students to work cooperatively

ProcedureThe teacher assigns students to pairs with at least one good reader in each pair

Student A describes the planning to write by student B

The prosedure is reversed

The student individually research the material they need for their compositions

The student work together

The student write their composition individually

The student proofread and making correction to other’s composition

Revise their compositions

Reread each other’s compositions and sign their names to indicate that each composition is error-free

Conclusions• The use of discussion groups• Increase student’s participation• Planned to maximize student’s

interaction• Facilitate student’s contributions• Can be collaborated with other

teaching methods• Enhances both learning and learner’s

interaction skills

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