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Approach.

Theory of language.

Cooperative Language Learning is founded on some basic premises about the interactive/cooperative nature of language and language learning and builds on thesepremises in several ways.

Premise 1 mirrors the title of a book on child language title born to talk. The author holds (along with many others) that “all normal children growing up in a normalenvironment learn to talk. We are born to talk . . . we may think of ourselves as having been programmed to talk . . . communication is generally considered to be the primary purpose of language”.Theory of learning.

Cooperative learning advocates draw heavily on the theorical work of developmental psychologists Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky , both of whom stress the central role of socialinteraction in learning.

Kagan and other CL theorists have adopted this framework as an underlying learning theory for cooperative Learning.

The word cooperative in cooperative learning emphasizesanother important dimension of CLL: It seeks to develop classroom that foster cooperation stress the benefits of cooperation in promoting learning:

1. Increased frequency and variety of secondlanguage practice through different types of interaction

2. Possibility for development or use of language in ways that support cognitive development and increased language skills

3.Opportunities to integrate language with content-based instruction

4. Opportunities to include a greater variety of curricular materials to stimulate language as well as concept learning.Design

Objectives

Since CLL is an approach designed to foster cooperation rather than competition, to develop critical thinking skills, and to develop communicative competence trhough sociallystructured interaction activities, these can be regarded as the overall objectives of CLL.



The syllabus

CLL does not assume any particular form of language syllabus, since activities from...