On the Necessity of Cooperative Learning for Business English Learning

With the globalization of the world and the Initiative of Belt and Road, Business English learning is becoming increasingly popular and important in China. Based on the comparison between tradional frontal-lecturing approach and cooperative learning and analysis of the characteristics of Business English course, this paper tries to integrate Business English teaching with cooperative learning from Dewey’s interactive naturalism and humanism with an attempt to explore why cooperative learning is effective in Business English learning to deveplope students’ English competence, business skills and moral qualities.