Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: We have long paid more attention to the structure of the English language than to the psychology of the learners. However, learners’ psychology like self-efficacy has a large effect on learners’ language learning. Meanwhile, cooperative learning is a teaching methodology that prioritizes the student-centered approach which has been proved positive and effective in improving learners’ self-esteem and social effects. Based on Bandura’s social learning theory, Vygotsky’s theory of proximal development zone and Socio-constructivism theory, the goal of the research is to discover whether cooperative learning can affect English learners’ language learning self-efficacy and whether they can accept this method of instruction. The results indicate that cooperative learning is effective in enhancing English learners’ general self-efficacy, interactive self-efficacy, and developing self-efficacy in language learning. Learners with high English learning self-efficacy gain more progress in English learning self-efficacy than learners with low and moderate English learning self-efficacy level, besides, cooperative learning method is widly accepted by most learners. Finally, three suggestions are put forward for further use of cooperative learning in English classes: 1. Randomizing group composition; 2. Clarifying role division; 3. Improving members’ English learning self-efficacy.
Authors: Lingjie Zhang, Weixia Sun
Institution: Hangzhou Normal University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4410619616