Application and Exploration of Cooperative Learning in English Classroom

Abstract

The new curriculum reform emphasizes the change of students' learning style and the reform of classroom teaching form, which requires teaching to develop towards the direction of autonomy, cooperation and inquiry, one of the important and specific goals is to change the ubiquitous passive acceptance of students' learning style, advocating students' participation in cooperative learning. Cooperative learning is a teaching activity that takes heterogeneous learning groups as the basic form system, utilizes the interaction between dynamic factors of teaching to promote students' learning, takes group achievement as the evaluation standard, and achieves teaching objectives together. Taking English classroom as an example, this paper discusses the application of cooperative learning in language learning. First, it introduces the concept and theoretical basis of cooperative learning, and its value and application in language learning. Secondly, through the analysis of cooperative learning practices in English classrooms, the main influencing factors and coping strategies of cooperative learning effectiveness are summarized. Then, effective regulation methods are proposed from the perspective of teachers and some suggestions are put forward to improve the application of cooperative learning in language learning. Finally, some suggestions on the future research of cooperative learning are put forward.