Universidad Central del Ecuador ESCUELA DE IDIOMAS Jorge LUis Gavilanez Cooperative learning is positive

1. Cooperative Learning is
Overwhelmingly Positive!!
October 2011
By Jorge Luis Gavilanez
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3. Cooperative Learning…
“is the instructional use of small groups
through which students work together to
maximize their own and each others
learning”
Johnson and Holubc, (1994)
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4. Principles of Cooperative Learning
• Active Learning
• Responsibility
• Development of other skills rather than
only language.
• Interdependence.
• Processing the interaction.
• Teacher´s role
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5. Benefits for students
• Academic:
Use of real language according to the task
given.
Opportunity to practice language in
context.
Use of different structures and vocabulary.
To attain higher levels of achievement.
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6. • Social:
Peer interaction, socializing in the foreign
language.
Friendship
Creativity
Sharing
Caring
Critical thinking
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7. Benefits for the teacher
• Motivated students.
• More interactive practice.
• Shares responsability
• Opportunity to asses students in a
different way.
• Discover the students´different types of
intelligences.
• Others…?
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8. Group Formation
• Duration: once, a week, a month, a term.
• Size: threes, fours, fives
• Members: balanced, according to
performance. According to the level of
language
• Room: enough space to monitor
• Rules: clear to work in the team. Use of L1
• Instructions before grouping ss.
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9. How to manage the class when
working with groups
• Clear instructions. (process)
• Monitoring.
• Signals to control noise.
• Timing.
• Language 1 or 2?
• Students´ roles.
• Tasks.
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10. How to form groups
• At random: using vocabulary studied,
funny words, others.
• T´s decision.
• According to the ss´needs or level of
English
• According to the task
• According to the space
• Ss´decision
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11. Reading in groups
• Jigsaw
Ss. are asigned to teams to work with
content material that has been divided into
sections.
In each team ss. read each section
asigned.
Ss. meet with their expert group who have
studied the same sections and discuss
questions provided by the T.
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12. Ss. Return to their original gruops and
teach teammates about the sectiion they
have studied.
The T. asseses the mastery of the overall
topic.
• Work in groups and use the Question
Chart (Q-Chart)
Ss. read a story and each member of the
group has to complete only one or two
boxes using the Q-words given by the T.
(then follow the jigsaw procedure) 12

13. Question Chart
Q. word is do/does did will can
What
Where
When
How
Who
Why
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14. Assesment
• Read the text and complete the chart in
each starting group
• Answer the following questions:
1. Where can you find information about
studies.
2. Do you need to know the language to
work in England?
3. How can you get a job in England?
4. What is an unpaid volunteer work? 14

15. Work hard and
Enjoy your
Teaching!!
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