Cooperative Learning Towards Collaborative Learning: A CriticalReview of Teamwork in Education

This article points to the importance of group life and the need for others in human life at first and then moves on to examine the need for teamwork in education. In the following, it reviews the characteristics of two kinds of common teaching methods in social sciences particularly second language learning that is related to active learning including cooperative language learning and collaborative language learning. Some recent literature reviews about these sub-types of active group learning and their implementation of them are surveyed in the current issue. This issue emphasizes teaching via cooperative learning, the teacher requests learners to participate in a predefined group by a team working to achieve educational aims based on selected structured syllabuses formerly, then points out the benefits of this kind of teaching method by introducing cooperative learning elements. For making learners engage in cooperative moods in education duties further, the instructors decided to make learners freer in liberated senses while working together, so learners feel more autonomous in collaborative learning and independent of teachers' guides. This article notes similarities and distinctions between cooperative and collaborative language learning and leads readers to recognize which kinds of them are suitable for their supposed educational goals. Since every second language learning approach has its constraints and shortcomings, so this study tries to inspect different aspects of teamwork learning methods through critical prospects for finding out the possibility of their demerits and limitations to instructors for providing appropriate methods have sufficient conversancy.

کلیدواژه ها:

teamwork ، active learning ، collaborative learning ، cooperative learning