The Application Of Cooperative Learning Strategy To High School English Class Under New Curriculum Conception

Cooperative learning is one of the effective language learning strategies and theories. It has a long history and is one of the educational theories which are suitable for the present English Curriculum Standards in our country. Under the guidance of the new curriculum standards and the theories of cooperative learning, this thesis analyzes the possibility and importance of cooperative learning in Senior English classes. By investigating the relevant factors of cooperative learning and comparing two classes involved in the research, the author puts forward some practical teaching strategies and methods under the new curriculum standards. This thesis is intended to stimulate the students’motivations of learning, improve the students’strategies of learning English so as to develop the ability of the students to use English comprehensively. Specifically, this thesis is divided into seven chapters:The first chapter, as a preface, includes the background, the purpose and the significance of cooperative learning as well as the structure of the thesis.The second chapter defines what the cooperative learning means, raises the theoretical foundations and reviews its research achievements at home and abroad.The third chapter explores and analyzes the problems existing in English teaching based on the investigations of the teachers, the students and the English classes.The fourth chapter presents the teaching design of the cooperative learning. It shows the feasibility of the cooperative learning by revealing the operation of the process.The fifth chapter proves the author’s viewpoints based on an experimental study. In the experiment class, the teacher adopted the cooperative learning while in the compared class the teacher still used the traditional teaching methods. After a term, we’ve got some useful conclusions.The sixth chapter is the reacquaints of the cooperative learning. The author has a better understanding of the cooperative learning after experiencing more teaching practice and reading more theories on the cooperative learning.The seventh chapter is the conclusion. It states the related results and the limitations of the experiment.