Using cooperative learning to enhance fourth grade students’ speaking skills

ABSTRACT: This action research investigates the effectiveness of Cooperative Learning to enhance speaking skills. This project was conducted at I. E. Abraham Reyes in a fourth grade group with a low English proficiency. The data was collected through the journals in which I registered all my personal thoughts and reflection, a semi-structured interview with the cooperating teacher (CT) to know her insight about the effectiveness of cooperative learning in the English classroom and a focus group and audio-recording with 12 students to know their experience and perceptions during the implementation of the project. All the data have proved that cooperative learning is a valuable strategy because it boosts students’ confidence, increases motivation and enhancesspeaking skills.

• Autores: Panesso Parra, Lina Marcela
• Tipo de recurso: Trabajo de grado de pregrado
• Fecha de publicación: 2024
• Institución: Universidad de Antioquia
• Repositorio: Repositorio UdeA
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/45509
• Acceso en línea: https://hdl.handle.net/10495/45509
• Palabra clave: Group work in education; Oral communication; Aprendizaje cooperativo; Comunicación oral; http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057503
• Rights: openAccess
• License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/