The major findings of this study suggested that cooperative learning helped
significantly to enhance the junior high school learners’ oral communicative
competence and their motivation toward learning English. Based upon the
conclusions drawn from the study, cooperative learning was thus recommended to be
integrated into the junior high school English instruction as part of the Nine-Year
Joint Curriculum, the current wave of education reform in Taiwan. Pedagogical
implications for the application of cooperative learning in EFL teaching, especially
suggestions for teacher development in cooperative learning, were proposed. Finally,
suggestions for future research were recommended.