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My name is Daniela Callegari and I teach basic English at a [|primary school] in Venice, Italy. Last year I took part in a [|research project] involving the use of cooperative tasks to encourage oral participation in CLIL. The results were really encouraging, so I would like to go on exploring the effects of Cooperative Learning (CL) in my EFL primary class. For young Italian language learners, oral productive skills are often the “Cinderella” skills because children have not yet acquired a large enough bank of “language” to start talking fluently. Contributing further to this phenomena are certain discipline problems which can occur during student-student interaction. CL provides a methodological framework which focuses on teaching fundamental social skills, which not only leads to an increase in student-student oral production, but a more harmonic learning environment.