Encouraging Interaction by Applying Cooperative Learning

A project was conducted in order to improve oral interaction in English by applying cooperative learning to students of seventh grade who had lower levels of oral production. I decided to choose topics related to real life and to plan a series of activities of sensitization to create stable work groups and increase oral interaction. The results show that cooperative work and the oral activities help the students increase oral production, express better and use a foreign language with more security. In spite of the results, I consider that cooperative learning needs more time so that it can be successful. Students must have the will to cooperate. Only when students have that good will and can work together is the potential of acquisition of knowledge maximized.