The integration of cooperative learning in the classroom

Abstract

Abstract The purpose of this work is to integrate cooperative learning into a classroom of English as a Foreign Language in the first year of Primary Education in a Spanish school, and also to design a didactic proposal around the beginning of a level A1 / A2 of language proficiency, based on a communicative approach according to our context, using cooperative learning with the purpose of promoting foreign language learning. In order to achieve our target, we are going to investigate further about what cooperative learning is, learning about how to create a climate of cooperation in an educational institution and finally, how to integrate it into a specific classroom. Likewise, we will go through all those communicative approaches that will also take part of our methodological framework for the learning of a foreign language. As a key element of any didactic proposal, assessment will be designed coherently, not only focusing on the subject itself, but also taking cooperation into account, understanding cooperation as a target itself, as well as a means for learning. Once describing the context where the process of teaching and learning of English as a foreign language will take place, we will create a didactic proposal that will enhance that process of learning through cooperation as the supporting element of our methodology and our didactic sequence