Cooperative Learning and Its Application to Senior Middle School English Teaching 合作学习及其在高中英语教学中的应用.doc

Cooperative Learning and Its Application to Senior Middle School English Teaching 合作学习及其在高中英语教学中的应用 Thesis statement: Cooperative learning, adopted in senior middle school English teaching, must entail teachers’ organizational strategies, instruction as well as arrangement, and it should be applied in more ways. Outline: Ⅰ.Introduction Ⅱ.The study of cooperative learning A. The definition of cooperative learning B. The organizational strategies of cooperative learning 1. The key elements that teacher should pay attention to 2. The role that teacher plays 3. The process of cooperative learning Ⅲ.The application of cooperative learning to senior middle school English teaching A. Usage of cooperative learning 1. Usage in preview and after-class activities 2. Usage in class 3. Usage in task-based approach 4. Usage in evaluation B. The activities of cooperative learning 1. Role-play 2. Discussion 3. Cooperative writing 4. Cooperative problem-solving C. The assessment of the activities D. The significance of the activities Ⅳ.Conclusion Cooperative Learning and Its Application to Senior Middle School English Teaching Abstract With the development of society, many socialists hold the view that cooperation will be more important by far than competition in the future society. Modern psychology research also makes us know that students’ cooperation will have more important effect on their understanding to the new knowledge. So, in the modern teaching, advocating cooperative learning will adapt to social needs and development more and more. Nowadays, even though New Course Standard voices that the 21st century is a period when information globalization and international economic integration occur, “learning to cooperate with others” has been one of the four pillars of global educational reform, the teachers’ teaching approach, in recent teaching, fails to meet the different levels of students in English and many real linguistic activities cannot be carried out flex