Cooperative Learning Boosts EFL Students’ Grammar Achievement

It has been suggested that Cooperative Learning (CL), as a close relative of Community Language Learning (CLL), might be a good alternative to the dominant Grammar Translation Method (GTM) in Asia, where learners are believed to be individualistic, passive, and unable to work cooperatively to construct their own knowledge. Based on ten ninety-minute-long sessions, this study compared CL to GTM in north-east Iran, using an experimental design. This research investigated 64 female freshmen's achievement on 10 grammatical forms. Thirty-two students (eight four-member groups) participated in the experimental group (CL), and the other thirty two in the control group. The same instructor (one of the researchers) taught in both classes. Using the SPSS software, a covariance test and independent samples t-tests were used to test three hypotheses.