C&D Chpt 6

In this chapter the authors talk about cooperative learning and its place in the language classroom. They talk about the benefits of group and partner activities as being that they not only provide more opportunities for interpersonal interaction, but at the same time they foster the development of social skills. I had already read the Johnson and Johnson and Kagan articles so I was already familiar with some of the information about cooperative skills in this chapter. The second part provides sample activities which I found to be quite interesting. One activity in particular called my attention (the "find someone who..." activity) as I have actually done that activity in a college level Spanish class. We did it as a sort of icebreaker during the first class, but I think it could be adapted to fit many different lesson topics.