Grouping Grouping Working in groups is of great benefit to many students.
Group learning allows for student interaction, sharing, and experimentation.
The additional interaction may influence students to pursue knowledge further than the current lesson. Collaborative learning involves bringing together students with different levels or areas of expertise. The students share their knowledge in order to accomplish a mutual goal. In a cooperative learning situation, students with similar knowledge backgrounds come together and build collective knowledge and use that collective knowledge to solve a problem. A very important benefit to this type of learning is that it usually provides a risk free atmosphere in which students can practice their language skills.