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

other the others when using the “cooperation” strategy.
Tien Long suggested that besides simply asking what a word meant, some
description or guessing about the word also was needed. This would allow a person
to request assistance from others in answering the questions. Tien Long suggested the
cooperation strategy should be applied this way:
In my learning experience for the cooperation strategy, I should not only ask
our partners a specific difficult word. It would be better if I also could
describe that difficult word and ask our partners a correct word. When all the
group members were not able to answer, we appealed to our teacher for
support.
In Tien Long’s second interview, he used his imagination and provided his
impression of the cooperation strategy:
Ling Mei Fang
Cooperation was a strategy that the basketball coach used, which made the
players, cooperate with each other and draw on the strength of each other to
offset the weakness of the other. In learning English, my classmates helped
each other and finally achieved their common purpose of learning and
communication.
Ling Mei stated the cooperation strategy should be useful when learning at
school, but it might be not applicable in a competitive working situation. In the first
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