Junior English Group Cooperative Learning Effectiveness

In the 21th century, at the background of economic globalization, knowledge is playing a more and more important role in all fields. The cooperative and creative spirits have become the era spirits and an important part in one's outlook on life and world. Education has to fulfill the global task for all the students in the world.However, the traditional instruction system emphasizes competition and individualism rather than cooperation, which not only interferes study itself, but also hampers perfect development of students' pesonality and mental health. National standards of English Course (Experimental Edition) puts more emphasis on the importance of co-operative learning. Based on the theoretical review at home and abroad and the study of New National Standard for English Curriculum, the author thinks that the application of this teaching approach can change the traditional ways of English teaching, which pays too much attention to the explanation of grammar and vocabulary, and develop students' competence of language use. The method, based on students' learning interest, life experience and their cognitive levels, creates more opportunities of practice, involement, cooperation and communication for students, develops their positive affection, facilitates their active thinking and practice, and improves their cross-cultural awareness and their autonomous learning.This thesis aims at probing into the feasibility of applying cooperative learning in groups to the junior English class. By the means of theory analysis and experiment, it first describes the present situation of English class teaching and reviews the concepts, significance, background and strategy of cooperative learning. Then it analyses how to carry out the teaching method in the junior schools on some students of grade has a significant improvement after being tested on. So we can get a conclusion that it is feasible to carry out the strategy of cooperative learning in practice. However, thr research still needs to be perfected.