英语版合作学习文献综述

A Study on the Problems and Strategies of Cooperative Learning in

Elementary School English Class

Literature Review

Class five, Grade 2013 Zhan Fuqin

Abstract: Cooperative learning is one of the learning methods that New Curriculum Reform has advocated. To cultivate students’ ability of cooperation and communication has become an important educational object. In order to meet the requirements of social development and school education, and to cultivate students’ ability of cooperation in a bett er way, we need to analyze the deficiencies and problems in the past researches; we also need to absorb and reference the existing research experience. We must find the new breakthrough of cooperative learning in order to cultivate students’ cooperative ha bits. Therefore, this paper makes a survey of these researches done to cooperative learning.

摘要：合作学习是新课程改革倡导的学习方式之一。培养学生的合作能力、交流能力已经成为了一个重要的教育目标。为了满足社会发展和学校教育的要求，更好的培养学生的合作能力，我们需要分析在过去研究中存在的不足和问题，吸取和借鉴已有的研究经验，争取在合作学校研究方面有新突破，更好的促进学生合作习惯的培养。因此本文对合作学习的这领域已做过的一些研究进行一个综合论述。

I. The History of Cooperative Learning

Cooperative learning has a long education history. More than two thousand years ago, “to learn,” has recorded about cooperative learning, which is Chinese classical education writing. It has stressed learners’ cooperation in learning process. In the first century AD, Kun Tiliang in ancient Rome brought up obtaining benefits by cooperation. From the eighteenth, Joseph Lancaster adopted cooperative learning method widely in England. His thoughts spread into America in1860, and his thoughts were welcomed by American educators, such as Parker and Du Wei. Parker’s teaching methods of cooperation leaded the education in America from 19 to 20 century. Later, Du Wei’s groups of cooperative learning became an important part of his famous teaching methods. And it laid a solid foundation for cooperative learning.

II. Research on Cooperative Learning

There are many educators studied Cooperative learning. Different educators brought up different theories. Professor Slavin thought that cooperative learning is a class teaching technology that students cooperate in different groups. And students can achieve praises according to their group performances in this process.

Ga Siji thought that cooperative learning is a kind of teaching pattern. It needs two to six students to organize a group to complete all kinds of important cooperative learning activities. Wang Hongyu thought cooperative learning refers to students in different groups cooperate with each other according to cooperative process and methods. And it is a teaching strategy system that can improve students’ cognition and emotion. Group learning is a main pattern of class teaching. Yang Mingquan thought that cooperative learning is a teaching pattern that students cooperate in groups.

From definition above, the connotation of cooperative learning mainly include four aspects. At first, cooperative learning is to disrupt traditional class teaching system. It is a dynamic cooperative teaching method. Secondly, groups are unit of cooperative learning. Thirdly, cooperative learning is a kind of inquiry-based learning, and it has stable aims. Finally, it is a group activity with inner cooperation and outer competition. And group performances decide their final performances.

III. Problems in Cooperative Learning

According to current education situation in China, it is not difficult to find that students in elementary school and middle school have common problems that lack of cooperation consciousness and communication skills. With the continuous development of society, Chinese