Involving Students in Team Work to Improve their Achievements in Writing The Case of First Year students in the Department of English at Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi- Ouzou
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Date
2017
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UNIVERSITE MOULOUD MAMMERI TIZI-OUZOU
Abstract
This study seeks to investigate the effect of cooperative learning on student’s attitudes and
their writing performances, case of the first year students in the department of English at
Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou. It aims at checking whether cooperative
learning has an effect on students’ writing performances or in other words does
cooperative learning helps students to improve their writing skills. This investigation is
based on the mixed method research. It combines an experiment which is based on two test
done by the students about the type of writing errors relying on the zone of proximal
development principal’s by Lev Vygotsky, as well as a questionnaire administered to the
first year students in the department of English; it aims to look for the students’ attitudes
toward the collaborative learning and writing. The study combines between qualitative and
quantitative method for the interpretation of the data. It uses statistical package for social
sciences (SPSS) for the analysis of statistical data (results’ of the questionnaire) whereas
qualitative content analysis is used to interpret the qualitative data (the results’ of the
experiment). The result revealed that cooperative work enhance first year students’ writing
performances in English department at Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou, also
the results shows that students have positive attitudes toward collaborative learning and
even writing
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30cm.; 57p.; tabl.+cd
Keywords
Cooperative learning, Collaborative writing, attitude, zone of proximal development, EFL
Citation
Linguistique Appliquée et Sémiotique Sociale