Application Of Cooperative Learning To The Spoken English Teaching In Nursing Classes Of Secondary Vocational School

Cooperative learning is a theoretic and strategic system which is based on the interaction between students and teachers and in accordance with group evaluation and group rewarding, which has heterogeneous group as its basic organizing form and focuses on multilateral interaction so as to promote the development of students' cooperation consciousness and cooperation skills to improve their cognitive level.Implementing cooperative learning enables students to develop essential Englishcommunication skills, including the skills, including the oral language skills involvedin social interactions. The abilities to elaborate, paraphrases, clarify, summarize,immediate and reach decisions, which are important aspects of successful usingdifferent language modes, are all learned and reinforced through cooperative learning.The research was to explore the combination of cooperative learning with spokenEnglish teaching in nursing classes of secondary vocational schools so as to find anew mode of spoken English teaching. Analyzing the current situation of spokenEnglish teaching in nursing classes of secondary vocational schools as well as thechanges of nurses' responsibilities in the future, the writer suggested an appropriateapplication of cooperative learning to the teaching of spoken English to nursingmajors. By means of a series of tasks related to the students' future work, the newmode socialized and actualized spoken English teaching so as to strengthen thestudents' competence of language communication.The experiment chose parts of students from the second grades in nursing classes of secondary vocational schools as objects of study. The writer has mainly carried out a quasi-experimental research as well as questionnaires on cooperative learning in spoken English teaching. In the research process, an effective and easy-to-operate cooperative learning model for nursing class spoken language teaching has been constructed; a cooperative learning instruction and evaluation strategy has been established; an effective method of cooperation skill training has been formed, the following conclusions have been reached; (1) Adoption ofcooperative learning can effectively increase students' learning interest in English and improve students' learning attitude in nursing classes of secondary vocational schools; ? Application of cooperative learning can effectively increase the academic record of students in spoken English study; (3) By using cooperative learning we can effectively promote students' cooperation consciousness and cooperation skill level.