新课程标准明确指出:“以学生的发展为基本出发点,力求体现素质教育的思想”;“倡导体验、实践、参与、交流与合作的学习方式,强调学生能用英语做事情”;提倡“任务型”的教学思想,把综合语言运用能力的培养落实在教学过程中。很明显新教材大力倡导合作学习,在此我主要从合作学习在英语课堂中的运用来谈谈合作学习在教学中的重要性及实用性。从教育学理论或教学经验来看,没有学生的主动性与积极性,任何教学都不能成功。为了提高学生的学习 The new curriculum standard clearly states that: “taking the development of students as the basic starting point and seeking to embody the ideology of quality education”; “Advocating ways of learning through experience, practice, participation, exchange and cooperation, emphasizing that students can do things in English” ; Advocate “task-based ” teaching ideas, the implementation of integrated language ability to implement in the teaching process. Obviously, the new textbooks strongly promote cooperative learning. Here I mainly talked about the importance and practicability of cooperative learning in teaching from the perspectives of using cooperative learning in English classes. From the pedagogic theory or teaching experience point of view, without the initiative and enthusiasm of students, any teaching can not be successful. In order to improve student learning