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On the implementation of cooperative-team approach in Oral English Class for High School Students (湖北大学外国语学院英语语言文学专业08级研究生：吴燕辉2008111103000307) Abstract High school English teaching has witnessed great changes in the past decades and communication has become the main purpose of learning luanguage according to the requirement of Course Criteria for General Senior High School English which points out that high school English teaching ‘needs to pay special attention to raising students ability to carry on thinking and expressing in English’ (中华人民共和国教育部，2003：8) However, in China oral English learning has been the weak point in the past decades, so how to improve students’ communicative competence has become a significant problem that each English teacher faces to solve. In the recent years, learner-centeredness has become the core of the educators’ attention, which turns the attention from teaching to learning to cultivate the learners potentiality in learning new things. Coopertive-team approach in oral English is a experimental pratice of the learner-centered theroy in which teacher is no longer the provider of knowledge but an organizer of the class, a particant and monitor, and students have become the center of the class and the major particants of the class. The essay ,based on the related research both at home and abroad, attempts to explore the factors that affect students’ peformance in oral English class , introduce the implementation of cooperative-team apprroach in English class and point out the challenges teachers are to encounter and the change of teacher’s role in this teaching approach. Finally, the feedback on cooperative-team approach in oral English class proves that the implementation of this approach is successful and encouraging. Key Words: Junior school students, oral English, cooperative-team approach, teacher’s role. 论高中英语口语课堂合作组教学方法的实施 摘要 高中英语教学在过去的几十年里经历了许多的变化，《普通高中英语课程标准》指出高中英语教学“要特别注重提高学生用英语进行思维和表达的能力”，(中华人民共和国教育部，2003: 8 ) 然而在中国，英语口语学习一直是