A Study Of Co-operative Learning In English Writing Instruction In Rural Secondary Schools

In the past few years, " fostering the communicative ability" has become one of the main targets of English instruction, students' English spoken ability has been improved greatly, but training and fostering students' English writing ability has been neglected in the English instruction. For a long time, the product-oriented approach has been adopted in the English writing instruction in our country, namely, teachers only pay attention to students' writing product — composition. Teachers assign the title of the writing, students write and hand in the compositions, and teachers correct them. In the last few years, teachers have paid little attention to the writing, have no systematic writing instruction and do not solve students' problems in the process of writing. The monotony of teaching method leads to students' little interest in English writing. The main reason is that students' effect in English learning is not fully exerted and there is no interaction among individuals, students and teachers. In order to change it, teachers must form new notion of instruction, new notion of students, new notion of learning, pay more attention to students' English writing process, help students to build up the attitude for loving learning, emotion of active learning, skills of learning to learn, spirit of co-operation and abilities of self-taught. Co-operation learning is believed not only to help to form the active accompanier's relation's but also to give an active emotion on the development of intelligence and non-intelligence.Firstly, this thesis probes into the definition of co-operative learning and English writing instruction and their theory basis. And then it studies the instruction strategies and operation rules of application of co-operative learning to the English writing instruction in rural junior middle school. After that, it focuses on the basic organization form and cases of co-operation. Finally, by means of survey on English writing in rural junior middle school, talks with teachers and students and its experiment, the conclusion that I have drawn is that co-operative learning to the...