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Making Language Learning Meaningful And Fun With Collaborative Projects, A. Louise Cole
Making Language Learning Meaningful And Fun With Collaborative Projects, A. Louise Cole
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Second Annual University of Arkansas Teaching and Learning Symposium: Sharing Teaching Ideas
Collaborative learning requires students to actively engage with others, typically fellow students, to achieve a common goal (Nokes-Malach et al, 2015). The form of this collaboration may vary from prescriptive, teacher-facilitated activities to more open-ended and reflective projects. Within the L2 classroom, students work toward language proficiency. The current World-Readiness Standards for Language Learners evaluate linguistic abilities in speaking, listening, reading, and writing but also require that students develop cultural competencies and understanding. In this vein, Oxford posits that within a collaborative learning framework, the notion of community …