Abstract

The current study tries to shed light on the impact of cooperative learning on developing, expanding, and growing the students’ information in learning English as a foreign language. This study aims to investigate the effect of the cooperative method and compare it with traditional methods of teaching English language. The study also tries to reveal the benefits of ‘cooperative learning’ in many aspects.
A sample of 84 students in the first year, Department of Psychological and Educational Sciences, College of Education, University of Kirkuk, has been chosen.
They are divided into two equal groups: 42 students for the control group and 42 students for the experimental group. It is hypothesized that there is no significant difference between the means of the control group and that of the experimental group. After instruction for 6 weeks, a test has been constructed, its validity and reliability have been measured, and then applied on the students. The data have been analyzed, results obtained and finally a number of conclusions and recommendations are given.