A Dissertation by GRACE HUI-CHIN LIN Submitted to the Office of ...

Cheng Chih Chen
Cheng Chih presented his perceptions of learning cooperation strategy, which
was focused on the advantages he received from using the strategy. Cheng Chih
perceived that the cooperation strategy helped him to make a comprehension check.
Cheng Chih also perceived that those who were willing to use cooperation strategies
were learners who had higher motivation for learning. In the first interview, Cheng
Chih answered:
Cooperation strategy was a good strategy to learn. It was a strategy that
taught us to prove our comprehension and complete the comprehension check
with our interlocutors. Furthermore, it was like exchanging information and
knowledge with our partners in communication. My perception to “appealing
for help” was that it had a function of learning. I perceived that a common
conclusion made through this strategy pushed two sides and reconfirmed that
their thinking was exactly the same.
In the second interview, Cheng Chih talked about his perceptions toward his
classmates who applied cooperation strategy:
For my classmates who tended to use a lot of cooperation strategy, I believed
that those were students who had stronger learning motivation. Usually, they
were not afraid of losing face, and they thought appealing for help was just
for a purpose of learning.
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