Study on Teachers' New Roles in Cooperative Learning Classes of College English

At present, with the communicative "Student-Centered Teaching Approach" popularly adopted, the traditional "Teacher-Centered Teaching Approach" has gradually lost its dominating place. As a result, the teachers' roles in College English teaching classes are changing towards more "Student-Centered Classes" according to modern teaching theory. The goal of English teaching nowadays is not only to teach the students linguistic knowledge but also to cultivate their communicative competence. In this case, this paper stresses the teachers' new roles and makes some concrete suggestions about how teachers can become qualified in these new roles.