Cooperative_Learning

Cooperative Learning Cooperative learning benefits most all students. It can benefit second language learning in many ways. One way is that when students are put into groups they are forced to try to understand. Students must first understand the instructions. If they don’t they will learn from their peers. They must tailor the conceptual information to where the group can understand. Together, the students must solve the problem. This is another area where cooperative learning has its full effect. The students draw from the material they have learned or from their prior knowledge. They can use their primary language L1, to help understand the full concept or idea. This in turn provides the activity with perhaps more in depth results. The students now know what the instructor wants and must portray their information using their second language, L2. This is made simpler by the fact that they comprehend the intent of the assignment. Now the instructor is a facilitator letting go of his traditional authority. This provides all students, not just language learners, to take a more active role in the learning process. # 2 To compensate for the lack of students, culture, view, understand, learning, language, must, just, way, try, study, should, own, one, don’t, time, second, quadrant, point, make, gap, computer, another, activity, work, understanding, specific, recognize, read, purpose, process, persuade, now, made, learn