Using Cooperative Learning to Foster the Development of Adolescents’ English Writing Skills
Seventh grade teachers at a Colombian public school chose cooperative learning as a strategy to improve student’s social performance and as a tool to get learners to enrich their academic level. This article reports on an action research and innovation project focused on the results eight students o...
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2016-01-01
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| description | Seventh grade teachers at a Colombian public school chose cooperative learning as a strategy to improve student’s social performance and as a tool to get learners to enrich their academic level. This article reports on an action research and innovation project focused on the results eight students obtained in their written performance in English classes during three cooperative lessons. This article gathers some existing research on writing skills and cooperative learning and a presentation and analysis about students’ real expectations and thoughts about writing in the English language. The systematization of this teaching experience also sheds lights on further actions to analyze closely students’ texts construction in a cooperative environment. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6986777cde324e1fb41c2944d24894af2025-08-20T03:18:02ZengUniversidad Nacional de ColombiaProfile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development1657-07902016-01-011812138Using Cooperative Learning to Foster the Development of Adolescents’ English Writing SkillsPaula Andrea Caicedo Triviño0Colegio Juana EscobarSeventh grade teachers at a Colombian public school chose cooperative learning as a strategy to improve student’s social performance and as a tool to get learners to enrich their academic level. This article reports on an action research and innovation project focused on the results eight students obtained in their written performance in English classes during three cooperative lessons. This article gathers some existing research on writing skills and cooperative learning and a presentation and analysis about students’ real expectations and thoughts about writing in the English language. The systematization of this teaching experience also sheds lights on further actions to analyze closely students’ texts construction in a cooperative environment.http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/53079Adolescents’ learning processcooperative learningforeign language acquisitionprocess-oriented writingwriting strategies |
| spellingShingle | Paula Andrea Caicedo Triviño Using Cooperative Learning to Foster the Development of Adolescents’ English Writing Skills Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development Adolescents’ learning process cooperative learning foreign language acquisition process-oriented writing writing strategies |
| title | Using Cooperative Learning to Foster the Development of Adolescents’ English Writing Skills |
| title_full | Using Cooperative Learning to Foster the Development of Adolescents’ English Writing Skills |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Using Cooperative Learning to Foster the Development of Adolescents’ English Writing Skills |
| title_short | Using Cooperative Learning to Foster the Development of Adolescents’ English Writing Skills |
| title_sort | using cooperative learning to foster the development of adolescents english writing skills |
| topic | Adolescents’ learning process cooperative learning foreign language acquisition process-oriented writing writing strategies |
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