On the Strategy to Enhance the Efficiency of the Cooperative Learning Method in the College English Teaching in China

Zhen Zhou

Abstract


The cooperative learning, which is also called the collaborative learning, is one of the most important learning theories nowadays, which promotes learning cooperation between teacher and students, students and students. The cooperative learning method is a kind of teaching mode which takes students as the center and takes groups as the form. It changes the teaching mode and it is conducive to cultivating students' cooperative awareness and autonomous learning ability. The article first illustrates the connotation, theoretical base, and elements of cooperative learning method, then explains the four typical problems arising in the cooperative learning, and finally puts forward seven methods to cope with the problems in order to enhance the efficiency of the cooperative learning method.

Keywords


the cooperative learning method; interdependent; assessment; interaction; efficiency

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0711.18

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