The Effects of Cooperative Teaching Reform on Chinese English Learners’ Linguistic Abilities and Non-linguistic Abilities.docVIP

The Effects of Cooperative Teaching Reform on Chinese English Learners’ Linguistic Abilities and Non-linguistic Abilities 　　[a]School of Political Science and Public Management, Southwest University, Chongqing, China. [b]Post-doctoral Stations of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. [c]Department of Foreign Languages, Minjiang University, Fuzhou, China. *Corresponding author. Received 5 May 2013; accepted 12 August 2013 Abstract This paper studies the different effects of co-teaching and traditional teaching on students? English linguistic abilities and non-linguistic abilities in Chinese context. Ninety-one non-English majors in a college in south-eastern China were involved in this experiment. The results of one-way ANOVA showed that the effects of Chinese-foreign teachers? cooperative teaching on participants? linguistic abilities were significantly better than the traditional Chinese teachers? teaching. The results of questionnaires revealed that co-teaching made a greater contribution to students? non-linguistic abilities than the traditional way did. In addition, students held more positive attitudes to co-teaching than the traditional teaching. Finally, reasons that may lead to the results have been discussed. Key words: Cooperative teaching; Traditional; Alternative; Linguistic abilities; Non-linguistic ZENG Zhihong, YIN Xiaojuan, ZENG Xiaoying (2013).The Effects of Cooperative Teaching Reform on Chinese English Learners? Linguistic Abilities and Non-linguistic Abilities . Higher Education of Social Science, 5(2), -0. Available from: URL: /index.php/hess/article/view/j.hess.1927024020130502.2792 DOI: /10.3968/j.hess.1927024020130502.2792 INTRODUCTION In recent years, in order to enable students to communicate efficiently with English in their future lives, there is a new trend to reform English teaching methods. The Ministry of Education of the People?s Republic of China encouraged universities to employ foreign scholars or