1. Cooperative Learning Dr. Chinfen Chen

2. What Is Cooperative Learning? Fostering students ’ ability to work with and appreciate others. Fostering students ’ ability to work with and appreciate others.

3. 1. T: to divide students into groups 2. T: to Give students the job 3. S: read and discuss 4. In 10 minutes  new groups 5. S: tell and teach How to make cooperative groups work in English teaching?

4. 6. to change groups again 7. The third time  original group 8. Individual test 9. Compare and combine scores How to make cooperative groups work in English teaching?

5. Five elements and advantages of cooperative learning ：

6. 1. Positive interdependence. Team members are obliged to rely on one another to achieve the goal. If any team members fail to do their part, everyone suffers consequences. Team members are obliged to rely on one another to achieve the goal. If any team members fail to do their part, everyone suffers consequences.

7. 2.Individual accountability 2.Individual accountability All students in a group are held accountable for doing their share of the work and for mastery of all of the material to be learned. All students in a group are held accountable for doing their share of the work and for mastery of all of the material to be learned.

8. 3.Face-to-face promotive interaction. Although some of the group work may be parceled out and done individually, some must be done interactively, with group members providing one another with feedback, challenging one another's conclusions and reasoning, and perhaps most importantly, teaching and encouraging one another. Although some of the group work may be parceled out and done individually, some must be done interactively, with group members providing one another with feedback, challenging one another's conclusions and reasoning, and perhaps most importantly, teaching and encouraging one another.

9. Appropriate use of collaborative skills Students are encouraged and helped to develop and practice trust-building, leadership, decision-making, communication, and conflict management skills. Students are encouraged and helped to develop and practice trust-building, leadership, decision-making, communication, and conflict management skills.

10. 5. Group processing Team members set group goals, periodically assess what they are doing well as a team, and identify changes they will make to function more effectively in the future. Team members set group goals, periodically assess what they are doing well as a team, and identify changes they will make to function more effectively in the future.

11. What teachers should do ？ Teachers select the appropriate material or design it by themselves. In the process of learning, teachers give students a guide to discover new information actively. Teachers teach students collaborative or social skills so that they can work together more effectively. Teachers select the appropriate material or design it by themselves. In the process of learning, teachers give students a guide to discover new information actively. Teachers teach students collaborative or social skills so that they can work together more effectively.

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