Enhancing Learners’ Cooperative Learning: Importance & Feasibility: Secondary School Learners as Samples.

Abstract

Enhancing learner’s cooperative learning seems to be a challenge to many instructors due to many factors, the reason that prompted us to define the aim of this study, which is investigating the feasibility and importance of using cooperative learning in EFL classes, and exploring the learner’s attitude towards this method. To fulfill the purpose of the study, a quantitative method was used as an attempt to collect data. We used two research instruments, a questionnaire for the students and an interview for the teachers. The first instrument composed of thirteen questions distributed to fifty secondary school EFL learners from El Hadj Ahmed Hattab in Medrousa and Tabouch Mohamed in Mellakou in the willaya of Tiaret. The interview consists of ten questions administrated to eight EFL teachers from the same institution, during the academic year 2019/2020.The results obtain from the questionnaire revealed that the majority of learners have positive attitudes towards cooperative learning, but they do not practice it properly and they use their mother tongue rather than communicating in English. The findings of the interview have showed that teachers are aware of the importance and effectiveness of cooperative learning, yet they do face a lot of difficulties which may affect the feasibility of this technique.