A Proposal of Activities Based on Cooperative Learning Techniques to Develop English Abilities in Eighth Grade Students at “Pedro Agustín Pérez” Junior High School.

Abstract

The topic that is going to be analyzed in the following investigation has a huge importance because it will help teachers to achieve several goals at the same time. In the first place, it will help them to increase their students ’performance, including fast, middle and slow learners. In the second place, it will help them to establish positive relations among the students, creating the basis for the continuity of a learning in which the diversity is considered. In the third place, it will give the students the experiences they need to get a perfect social, psychological, and cognitive development. The possibility of dealing with these three aspects at the same time makes Cooperative Learning superior to any other method of teaching.