Since the early 1990s, the concept of cooperative learning and classroom teaching activities began to be introduced into middle and primary school classroom teaching activities in China. In recent 20 years, the Chinese education scholars have done a series of research and experiment about the emotion influences that cooperative learning. They all drawn the result that the cooperative learning is effective for the emotion. For example, Zhe Jiang University did a research about the selection and application in cooperative learning, which provided an evidence for the reform of education curriculum in China, and found that the teaching theory have an influence on the emotion. So, it is necessary to talk about the influence.
II. Characteristics of Cooperative Learning
Cooperative learning in the classroom, the new model of teaching, is different from the tradition models, whose core is the book and the goal is to foster the ability of independent study and innovation. Cooperative learning is a new way with the help of the teacher to study by cooperating in the class. Everyone all takes part in it and finish its work on time. For example, in the classroom of the junior high school, the cooperative learning can be present in reading the text, oral practicing, writing and so on. It is the best way to make the goal come true and enhance the quality of teaching.
2. 1 The Cooperative Learning
As there is a different description about the cooperative learning, so the definitions of cooperative learning are more and there is no single definition. But, there still have some ones as follows:
Slavin, the professor of Johns Hopkins University, had defined the cooperative learning from inpidual responsibility and team rewards. Otherwise he believes the cooperative learning is a class teaching technology, which depend on the students’ behavior or activity that they can be encouraged.
Bei Tina gives a definition to cl that the cooperative learning is a teaching activity, whose fundamental form is the team, through the interaction of the students and the judge standard is the score of the team.
Wang Hongyu, the educator of China, believes the cooperative learning is a system that could encourage the formation of cognitive and the emotion according to some cooperative programs to promote the study. 试论英语课堂中合作学习模式对中学生学习情感的影响(2):http://www.youerw.com/yingyu/lunwen_39085.html