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Application of Cooperative Learning Techniques in the EFL Classroom I. Introduction The past twenty-thirty years, the world mainstream teaching research and the practice already from changed take the teacher as the center from to the student centered. From changes take the knowledge as the key to turn to the students participation and knowledge development as the key point. In the transformation, the people began to pay attention to the group learning and by the duty study pattern primarily. The Cooperation Learning is precisely produces under the development. The cooperation studys researchers have developed all kinds of cooperative learning pattern. Here we’ll clever in new field. Cooperative learning group should be regularly to previous group activities for the evaluation. Through these questions’ discussion, the members of the team will sum up experience, and learn lessons from the future, for the team to better cooperation. II. Brief Introduction of Cooperative Learning Techniques Cooperative learning is one of the three major theories of the new curriculum reform. A large number of teachers are now trying introducing this kind of method into class. If you want to use Cooperative Learning, First you must know what Cooperative Learning is. 2.1 The definition of Cooperative Learning Cooperative Learning is not easily defined in a concise and formal manner. Different authorities offer different definitions. Davidson offered the definition as “a task for group discussion and resolution (if possible), requiring face-to-face interaction, an atmosphere of cooperative and mutual helpfulness, and individual accountability”. Cooperation Learning, according to Olsen is defined as “group learning activities organized so that learning is dependent on the socially structured exchange of information between students in group and in which each student is held accountable for his or her own learning and is motivated to increase the learning of others.” From the abov