随着新的教育课程改革的逐步深入,英语课堂教学的组织形式也在悄然发生变化。原有的单一、被动的学习方式已被打破,出现了旨在充分调动、发挥学生主体性的多样化的学习方式,如自主学习、合作学习、探究学习等。其中,小组合作学习是新课程课堂教学中应用得最多的学习方式。本文对合作学习的基本理念、要素和在英语教学中的应用方法、应用优势及其应该注意的问题作了具体的阐述。 With the gradual deepening of the new education curriculum reform, the organizational form of English classroom teaching is quietly changing. The original single and passive learning methods have been broken, and various learning methods such as autonomous learning, cooperative learning and inquiry learning have emerged, aiming to fully mobilize and give play to their subjectivity. Among them, the group cooperative learning is the most used learning method in classroom teaching of new curriculum. This article elaborates the basic concepts and elements of cooperative learning, the application methods in English teaching, the application advantages and the problems that should be paid attention to.