Problems and countermeasures of cooperative learning in business english

Abstract

Cooperative learning focuses on group activities, emphasizing student activity as the center, teachers as organizers, instructors, supervisors, and evaluators. As an effective teaching model, cooperative learning is increasingly adopted in Business English teaching that needs a lot of student activities and practices. However, cooperative learning still has various problems in the process of Business English teaching, so this paper aims to analyze the problems in classroom setting, group formation, teachers, students and teaching assessment, and eventually propose countermeasures to solve these problems.