Cooperative Learning Groups in an EFL Grammar Classes: A Learners’ Boost Outcomes The Case of Second Year EFL Students at Tlemcen University

Abstract

English is spoken nowadays around the globe and has wider dispersion that any other language; it becomes really hard to thrive in this world without knowing this language. For this reason, its teaching is viewed as one of the rapid processes in this increasingly changing world. In fact, EFL learners are daily confronted with manifold complicating factors along their learning process ranging between the feeling of contentment and motivation in some situations involving speaking English in oral production courses or composing in written production courses, and being forced to deal with complex aspects of language, in which they lose the sense of pleasure in an educational setting where English is taught. Consequently, EFL students may still show some difficulties in grammar for instance where they feel distracted with many details about articles, tenses and prepositions. Grammar which has been and still a subject of hot discussions among investigators, is the core of every language and the system of regular patterns which make up a language. It is this system that allows language students to create an infinite number of sentences and make sense of what they are learning. Although, tutors fill in their EFL scholars’ tiny heads with a large repertoire of grammar rules and distinct lexical items besides some practice sessions in which they are asked to overcome different activities related to grammar in order to guarantee that their communicative competence is being enhanced. They are still faced time to time hardness in solving the problems previously stated.