Cooperative Learning In Junior English Classroom

Learning style is the sum of relatively stable motivation, attitude and approach, which built in the learning process is the key and core for people to learn. Cooperative learning theory came to China since the late1980s. With the promulgation of National Standards of English Curriculum (Experimental Edition) and development of new basic education curriculum reform, cooperative learning was widely concerned and thoroughly studied by scholars of education and present world. Now, many scholars and front-line teachers achieved many studies results in cooperative learning research fields, such as cooperative learning model and its efficiency. But, the practical research on how to apply cooperative learning model to the specific foreign language teaching and how to try to use the operational cooperative learning in foreign language teaching are still few, especially in junior high school of foreign language teaching profession in our country. Therefore, many foreign language teachers in primary and secondary school are often contradictory. They mechanically imitate or follow the traditional teaching model without the proper theory and practical methods.At present, children in Grade1start to learn English in primary schools in many provinces and cities. The kids in kindergarten even have English classes in some developed cities and some parents make their kids start learning English even earlier. The age they learn English becomes earlier. But children’s interest in learning English decrease as their ages and grades grow. On the one hand, learning effects, time and efforts from teachers and students’are not proportional. The phenomenon of wasting time and inefficiency is very prominent in English teaching and learning. On the other hand, extreme differentiation becomes more and more serious. The phenomenon differentiated even emerged in elementary school in some regions. Accordingly, with the knowledge of in-depth research on domestic and foreign cooperative learning in English language teaching, as well as specific condition of my class, the author of this thesis carry out teaching experiments of cooperative learning method and build a task-based cooperative learning style in and out of classroom for specific circumstances. Finally, we examined the feasibility of this model through the action study, tried to find and solve the specific problems in implementation process and improved the cooperative learning method continuously.The writer wants to get some enlightenment from the action research eventually and hopes it will provide some references for my own English language teaching and other English teachers in the future. At the same time, it will benefit our students to form a good learning habit and gradually develop effective learning strategies. What’s more, it will build a good foundation of sustainable development for students.