Cooperative Language Learning

Cooperative Language Learning

Foreign Languages Didactics I

Teacher: Claudia Yanive Prieto C.

Multiple Select

"Cooperative Learning is a teaching strategy in which small teams, each with students of different abilities, use a variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject".

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The overall objectives of CLL are: foster cooperation rather than competition, to develop critical thinking skills, develop communicative competence through socially structured interaction activities.

• True

• False

Poll

Formal cooperative, informal cooperative, cooperative base are types of:

• Elements of CLL

• CLL groups

• Tasks of CLL

Poll

In the key element "Positive interdependence" group members feel that what helps one member helps all and what hurts one member hurts all.

• True

• False

Multiple Select

Deciding on the size of the group, assigning students to groups, students roles, are part of the key element:

• Positive interdependence

• Individual accountability

• Social skills

• Group formation

Multiple Select

This involves both group an individual performance.

• Structuring and structures

• Social skills

• Individual Accountability

Multiple Select

Each group member has a specific role to play in a group, such as noise monitor, turn-taker monitor, recorder or summarizer.

• True

• False

Multiple Select

This is the way students interact with each other as teammates.

• Individual Accountability

• Positive interdepence

• Group formation

• Social skills

Multiple Select

This refers to ways of organizing students interaction and different ways students are to interact such as Three- step interview or Round Robin.

• Positive Interdependence

• Individual accountability

• Structuring and structures

• Social skills

Multiple Select

Team practice from common input, jigsaw and cooperative projects are according to Coelho (1992) the three main principles of CLL

• True

• False

Multiple Select

Three-step interview, roundtable,think-pair share, solve -pair share, number heads are examples of:

• Principles of group work

• CLL activities

• Key elements of CLL

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"The primary role of the

is a member of a group who must work collaboratively on tasks with other group members"

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The role of the

differs from the traditional process, he/she has to create a highly structured and well-organized environment in the classroom.

Multiple Choice

The learning goals of group work, the task, the way information is distributed, the seating arrangement of the members of the group, the social relationships between the members of the group; are part of:

• CLL principles

• Principles of group work

• CLL key activities

Multiple Select

Materials do not play an important part in CLL because they do not help students to work cooperatively, the most important is the student´s attitude.

• True

• False