合作学习是从20世纪70年代在美国兴起,并在70年代中期至80年代中期取得实质性进展的一种富有创意和实效的教学理论与策略。合作学习增强了学生课堂合作学习与参与的意识;确立了学生的主体地位,充分发挥学生的主体作用,使学生成为学习的主人;培养了学生多种英语能力,有利于提高学生的英语学习成绩。 Cooperative learning is an innovative and effective teaching theory and strategy that has emerged from the United States in the 1970s and made substantial progress in the mid-1970s and mid-1980s. Cooperative learning enhances students ’consciousness of collaborative learning and participation in class; establishes the dominant position of students, gives full play to students’ main role and makes students become the masters of learning; cultivates students ’multiple English skills and improves students’ English learning performance .