Korean EFL Teachers’ Beliefs of Cooperative Learning: With a Focus on Classroom Practice
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The purpose of this study is to provide some valuable insights for teachers and teacher trainers to construct and monitor effective cooperative learning (CL). For this purpose, Korean EFL teachers’ beliefs of CL implementation were explored with a focus on classroom practice. The data for this study were collected through questionnaires from a total of 247 teachers at 13 elementary and 40 secondary schools in Jeollanamdo and Gwangju, Korea. The survey was conducted from May to July of 2005 academic year, and the data were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The overall findings of the survey showed that the majority of respondents had a higher-level of understanding about CL’s key concepts regardless of teaching levels or experiences, but that there existed some mixed responses concerning its classroom practice. Additionally, despite several educational benefits of adopting CL as an instructional method, quite a few teachers were revealed to avoid using CL techniques chiefly because they were not adequately prepared for using CL and therefore concerned over facing some disciplinary problems. To conclude, it is suggested that teachers have some positive views of implementing CL in terms of its beneficial traits and should be properly trained through teacher education programs, thus acquiring the knowledge necessary to use various CL techniques.
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