The Impact of Cooperative Learning Method in Teaching New Vocabulary for Fourth Preparatory Students

Abstract

This study sheds light on the investigation of the outcome of cooperative learning on English language development in teaching new English vocabulary of students in Iraqi public educational classrooms. The control and experimental design is used in this research. 88 Iraqi EFL learners at preparatory school participate in this study who were studying vocabulary development throughout their textbook course in 2019 academic year(English for Iraq). The first course concerned in this research. Several cooperative learning instructions were followed in reading and writing drills. Every student asks to do the pretest to show the homogeneity and the final exam as the post test for the sake of English vocabulary knowledge progress .The average was taken to show the effect of cooperative learning in the students' development of vocabulary English language. From the comparison of results, a pretest and post test indicate the existence of considerable distinction between the experimental group and control group of instructions