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摘要：The research on Cooperative Learning began in 1970s in America. Many researches have provedthat it has positive effects on class environment, student achievement as well as social affective aspects.Cooperative learning is based on students’ individual factors, and the students work together inheterogeneous groups to help and encourage each other to learn and reach the common goals. Theirawards are evaluated by the general achievements of the whole group. The research on cooperativelearning had decades of history abroad, but in our country the systematic study and experiment ofcooperative learning began in the late of 1980s. Furthermore, the researches at home have beenfocusing on the application of cooperative learning in oral English teaching of the junior or seniorschool or non-English majors in the universities which is conducted by our native Chinese teachers, butlacking of the research in oral English teaching in English major, especially conducted by native Englishteachers. Therefore, this study put forwards that cooperative learning is applied in oral Englishteaching of native English teacher in English major from a new perspective.

I Introduction

1.1 Background of the study
English, as a universal language, is a kind of communicative language. With the rapiddevelopment of our country, it is obviously that oral English is becoming more and more important.Especially, college students are aware of the importance of oral English. Thus, it is crucial for studentsto care about how to communicate with foreigners in English in daily life and at work. However,having spent in learning English for a long time, a large number of students still can hardly speak out acomplete sentence although they have a barge of vocabulary and a great deal of grammatical rules in theirminds, let alone communicate fluently and accurately in English. This is described as “the dumbEnglish” and “the deaf English”. The cause of the problem is that our English teaching classrooms arecontrolled by the traditional teacher-centered grammar-translation method. Traditional methodsoveremphasize the vocabulary and grammatical rules, neglecting the communicative competence andthe students’ autonomous study and the connotation of the human course. In traditional classroom,teachers dominate the whole class and are regarded as the unique authority. Teachers explain andtranslate the text in a traditional way, while paying little attention to the feelings and reflections of thestudents. The only thing students can do is to take notes of what the teachers say mechanically. Theyhave little opportunities to participate in real communication in class. They spend a large portion oftheir time memorizing the words and grammatical patterns individually. Meanwhile, many studentsdon’t have enough time and opportunities to practice English in class and lack the real communicativeatmosphere in their learning process, so they are afraid of loosing faces and hesitate to express theiropinion voluntarily. Therefore, more interaction using the target language between peers should beencouraged in our classrooms. In order to solve this problem, the teachers have the responsibility to finda new teaching method to arouse students’ enthusiasm to speak out. So this study is intended topropose cooperative learning to the oral English teaching. Through abundant research and experiment,cooperative learning approach is proposed to solve these problems.Cooperative learning emphasizes that the students are regarded as the main body of the classroom.Just as John Dewey once stated, “Education should focus on students, and schools should work forstudents’ need”. All the students are encouraged to participate in the classroom activities and communicate with other peers in the group. It gives students more opportunities to interact to learnfrom each other and requires students to share information, help and cooperate with each other for thecommon goals. So, teachers have responsibilities to prepare as much as possible for the students to beable to speak English in the real world outside the classroom and the workshop.

1.2 Purpose of the study
Many researches have proved that cooperative learning is regarded as a creative and effectiveteaching approach and can improve the class atmosphere, student achievements, stimulate the goodquality and spirits of the students. So the study is to investigate: ⑴to examine how the teacherdesigns and organizes oral English teaching employed Cooperative Learning approach in class, ⑵toexplore and record the students’ performance a本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。