An Insight into Cooperative Language Learning

Every species in this world are linked to one another through a medium that helps them understand and respond positively or negatively to the environment. These species use their senses to communicate through odors, sounds and non-verbal behaviours. Similarly, humans, being the superior of all living beings, are blessed with a brilliant form of medium to communicate. We call it the language, which is, in fact, as old as human evolution. Language helps us generate our feelings into appropriate forms of meaningful words, thereby providing an opportunity for the listener to grasp our intention, expectation and purpose of our communication. It allows us to share and transform abstract feelings into easily understandable ideas. Society can never exist without meaningful communication exchanges. In order to maintain and lead an optimistic lifestyle, we must use language in a socially acceptable and contextually suitable way. Hence, language learning is viewed as an art that should be learnt artistically. Learning a language is a challenge. It is a field filled with constant changes and surprising outcomes. It is a common belief of many researchers and educators that to acquire mastery over a language that we are trying to learn; we have to live in an environment in which the target language is used. Unless we are regularly exposed to a particular target language, it is impossible to develop competence in it. This paper aims to explore the benefits of learning a language in an effective manner using the Cooperative Language Learning (CLL) technique.