Abstract:The study of cooperative learning is not a new research scope. For several years, lots of researchers have done a lot in this field on this issue and worked on many correlated theories about it. According to the developing requests of society nowadays, however, it is very necessary to specialize in cultivating the ability of oral communication for the secondary school students, because, as we all know, most secondary school students learn English well not only for taking exams, but also for improving their oral ability to adjust themselves to the development of the future society. But in fact they cannot find a proper way to make their dreams true. Therefore, it is an efficacious way for secondary school students to use cooperative learning to improve their oral ability. This paper analyses and studies the features, advantages, efficacious ways, and some problems which should be paid attention to in the process of using cooperative learning and provides ways to divide groups properly to carry out the cooperative learning.

Key words: oral English; cooperative learning; effective methods

中文摘要:合作学习的研究并不是一个新的研究领域，在很多年前就有许多人对此做了不同程度的研究并有了许多相关的理论。根据当今社会的发展要求，培养中学生口语交际能力是十分必要的, 因为我们知道大多数中学生在学习好英语除为了应付考试的同时还想提高自己的英语口语能力以便很好的适应未来社会的发展，但却找不到合适的方法来进行训练。因此，利用合作学习对提高中学生的口语能力是一个十分有效的好方法。本文就合作学习的特征，优点，有效方法以及在应用合作学习的过程中合理分组应注意的一些问题进行分析研究。

关键词：英语口语；合作学习；有效方法