THE EFFECT OF COOPERATIVE LEARNING TECHNIQUES ON PROMOTING WRITING SKILL OF IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS

Cooperative Learning refers to instructional methods involving small heterogeneous groups working together, toward a common goal and teaching writing may be a difficult skill in Teaching English as Foreign Language, so the purpose of this study was to investigate The Effect of Cooperative Learning Techniques on promoting writing skill of Iranian EFL Learners.so that, one hundred Iranian English Foreign Language learners participated in initial population of this study and 60 learners were selected after a proficiency Test. The participants were at the intermediate level in compliance with Nelson English Language Proficiency Test .The selected participants were randomly divided into two experimental groups:Student Team - Achievement Divisions (STAD), Group Investigation (GI), and one control groupConventional Instruction (CI).The procedure lasted for 16 weeks. The statistical analysis of the results by one-way ANOVA shows that the experimental groups (STAD and GI) performed better on writing skills than the control group (CI),and based on the results cooperative learning enhances students writing performance.