阅读教学是中学英语教学的重要组成部分,培养和提高学生的阅读理解能力是中学英语阅读教学的主要目的和任务之一。传统的英语阅读课教学存在着诸多弊端,严重影响了学生阅读能力的提升。目前,新课改中所倡导的合作学习适宜于英语阅读教学,它有利于培养学生的竞争与合作意识,以及阅读理解能力。 Reading teaching is an important part of English teaching in middle school. To cultivate and improve students’ reading comprehension is one of the main goals and tasks of English reading teaching in middle school. There are many drawbacks in the traditional teaching of reading English, which has seriously affected the improvement of students’ reading ability. At present, the cooperative learning advocated in the new curriculum reform is suitable for English reading teaching, which is conducive to cultivating students’ awareness of competition and cooperation and reading comprehension.