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This is an study designed to describe the effect on interactions between students based on dialogs in English promoted by the model of cooperative learning in school self esteem and the school avoidance behavior. The hypothesis of this study was that the model of cooperative learning determines the increase of the general performance, but also the bettering of the school self esteem and the decrease of the school avoidance behavior by the pupils, in comparison with the traditional frontal model of training. The model of cooperative learning has been chosen for this type of intervention in this study because it involves all the elements of cooperative learning of heterogeneous groups, positive interdependency, personal contribution, social and cooperating skills, group processing. Even if the study didn’t identify significant differences from a statistic point of view between the control group and the experimental group regarding the last two dependent variables (school self esteem and school avoidance behavior), it showed that the cooperative learning model is more efficient than the training based on the usage of the handbook for the improvement of performance in reading in a foreign language of gymnasium pupils.

Key words: model of cooperative learning, school self esteem, school avoidance behavior