论合作学习在高中英语写作教学中的应用-教学(英语)专业论文.docxVIP

II II Abstract As a communicative tool, English plays an important part in international communication and cooperation, as for English writing, one typical form of communication also weighs much. However in China, we do not attach much importance to English writing in the school education. Thus, many serious problems exist in the current English writing teaching . Cooperative learning approach is a kind of pedagogical strategic system promoted by Slavin, Johnson et al in the 1970s in America, and it encourages students to perform all kinds of learning activities in small group, emphasizes the learner-centered class, in which the teacher plays a role of director, cooperator, supervisor who attempts to enhance teacher-student and student-student interactions and promotes students to learn sufficiently, enables students to work cooperatively. In cooperative learning students help each other to study some materials and can be rewarded for the achievements or performance of the entire group. Rewarding the group for the achievements of every group members reduces the pressure on the students and enhances students’initiative to finish assignments. Cooperative learning experiment was conducted from September 2010 to January 2011. The subjects are students in grade 2 from two classes in Changyuan No.1 Middle School of Xinxiang city Henan Province, the two classes are at the average level in the whole grade and they are taught by the same teacher, the author names them the experimental group and the control group with respectively 72 and 76 students.In the experimental group the cooperative learning approach is conducted while the traditional teaching method in the control group. In this research, literature review, and questionnaires are used to get the date for analysis and discussion. The conclusion can be drawn through comparison and analysis: In English teaching, cooperative learning approach is more effective than the traditional teaching method. It can decrease student