A Study Of The Application Of Cooperative Learning To English Teaching In Primary School

Since curriculum reform is applied to education in our country, great progress has been made in primary school English teaching. One important goal of the new curriculum is to develop students’ ability to cooperate and communicate with each other. The cooperative mode can promote the efficiency of English teaching and learning in primary school,because it can promote the children’s motivation and interest. And each student can fully take part in the study activities. Compared with the traditional English teaching method, which is based on the teacher-centered and passive mode, the cooperative mode can bring fresh ideas to primary school English teaching.The author found that the group cooperative learning mode has so many advantages through one year’s group cooperative learning experiment. This mode, which is like a golden key can solve most problems appearing in the past. For example:1. It may enhance the students’ interests in English study; 2. It may greatly improve the students’ learning.The thesis is divided into 5 chapters:Chapter 1: The introduction, in which the background, purpose, significance and structure of the research are introduced.Chapter 2: Literature review, in which the concepts mentioned in this thesis are defined; the theoretical constructions of cooperative study are clarified; and the researches of the cooperative learning at home and abroad are analyzed.Chapter 3 : in which an experimental research on the students of Qinghe Experimental Primary School is described.Chapter 4: Data processing and analysis, in which how the group cooperation affects English teaching in tests, interviews, questionnaire surveys is described.Chapter 5: Conclusion on some inspirations and limitations of this research.