An Investigation of Cooperative Learning on EFL College Listening Courses

Yen-Kai Chen

cooperative learning ； learning together technique ； English listening skills ； EFL college listening

應用英語期刊

18卷（2024 / 06 / 01）

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英文

Cooperative learning has been a popular technique in language learning. Some relevant research was already conducted, and its benefits were also proved. This study was to investigate its effectiveness on the development of English listening proficiency in an EFL college in Northern Taiwan. The participants were 65 freshmen students from the engineering department. These students were divided into an experimental and a control group, and they all experienced an eight-week treatment. An adapted listening comprehension test was used for the measurement of the participants' listening performance. To analyze the data collected, paired sample t-test and ANCOVA were administered. The findings showed that all the students from the experimental and control group made significant progress after the treatment. However, the advancement of the experimental group was not higher than that of the other group. In view of these results, the researcher recommended that teachers should employ cooperative learning in their teaching as it was positively instrumental to develop English listening proficiency.