The Effect of Cooperative Learning Strategies in the Enhancement of EFL Learners’ Speaking Skills

Altun, Mustafa and Sabah Meena, Reman (2020) The Effect of Cooperative Learning Strategies in the Enhancement of EFL Learners’ Speaking Skills. Asian EFL Journal Research Articles, 27.

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Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the effect of cooperative learning strategies based on multiple intelligence on enhancing EFL learner’s communication skills. 48 learners are used in this study, experimental and controlled groups. They were all freshmen students from foundation year in Faculty of Education at Tishk International University, Erbil, KRG-Iraq. 145 Both groups were under the experiment study for 15 academic weeks in the 2018-2019 academic year in the spring semester. The tool for collecting data was through pre and post�test speaking strategies for both experimental and controlled groups to see the progress of learners speaking skills during the academic semester. The participants recorded scores from pre-test and post-test of both groups were verified and analyzed. The results revealed that cooperative strategies based on multiple intelligence have an enormous significant effect on improving learners speaking skills. The study has also suggested some recommendations and submissions for additional research.

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