HowtoImproveSeniorHighSchoolStudents

毕业论文（设计）1.IntroductionStepping into expanded information times,English as a tool of communicationhas been playing a more significant role for collecting worldwide information andcarrying out international exchanges and cooperation,which has been set highrequirements on one's English ability in particular reading ability.Reading is one ofthe fourth basic skills of English.However,in senior high schools,the situation ofstudents'reading ability is far from being satisfactory.For many students,they are afraid of reading and most of them show littleinterests in reading for the English reading is too boring and tedious to attract theirattentions.In traditional reading class,the students are just passive to listen,take notesand then recite what they have written down.They lack autonomic learning for notime was left for themselves to think what they have learned in teacher-dominantclass.In order to search for a right way to solve the problem,numerous teachers havebeen devoted themselves to search for an effective teaching method to improvestudents'reading abilities.One of the favorable methods is cooperative learning.Cooperative learning is an old educational view and practice.In China,it beganas early as 2000 years ago when the famous educational masterpiece Xueji (2007:227)says:"Studying alone leads to ignorance and being ill-informed."But it wasinitiated by American scholars in 1970s,and made concrete progress and created aseries of teaching theory and study strategy,which was widely used by other countriesincluding China in 1990s.Actually,the nature of cooperative learning is group work2