题目 Reflections on Group Interaction in an EFL Class AcknowledgementsI would like to express my gratitude to all those who helped me during the writing of this thesis. I gratefully acknowledge the help of my supervisor, lecturer Wenya who has offered me valuable suggestions in the academic studies. In the preparation of the thesis，she has spent much time reading through each draft and provided me with inspiring advice. Without her patient instruction, insightful criticism and expert guidance, the completion of this thesis would not have been possible.I also owe a special debt of gratitude to all the professors in Foreign Languages Institute, from whose devoted teaching and enlightening lectures I have benefited a lot and academically prepared for the thesis.I should finally like to express my gratitude to my beloved parents who have always been helping me out of difficulties and supporting without a word of complaint.Abstract: Group interaction is one of mainly teaching methods. Its goal is to complete the specific tasks of teaching purposes. In the new curriculum, group interaction is being widely used in the English classroom teaching. But in actual English class, group interaction leaves much to be desired. This paper studies the current situation of group interactions in EFL classrooms and reflects the problems that group interaction is not as good as we think. The author studies group interaction from the perspective of English major students and does research on the students views, expectations and attitude towards classroom group interaction. Furthermore, the study shows that students personalities, the relationship between members of the group, the role played by the teachers in the group activities and the choice of topics, to a certain extent, affect the effectiveness of the group interaction through self-reflection method. Thus, teachers should learn to perfect the group interaction starting from their own. And students should be initiative and positive to follow their teachers step and cooperate with group members.Key words: group interaction; group members; self-reflective approach摘要：课堂小组互动作为课堂教学的一个重要途径，其目标是更好的完成完善教学任务。在新课程标准下，课堂小组互动被大量的运用。但是，其效果却不尽人意。本论文通过探讨课堂小组互动在英语专业课堂中的现状，反思为什么课堂小组互动不如大家预期的问题。作者从英语专业学生的角度，考查了学生对课堂小组互动的看法、期望及态度。而且本文将通过文献查阅法及自我反思法，发现学生的个人因素以及小组成员之间的关系，话题的选择及老师的角色在很大程度上影响课堂小组互动。因此，老师要先从自身出发完善课堂小组互动，而学生则要紧跟老师步伐主动积极地和小组成员合作。关键词：小组互动; 小组成员; 自我反思法 Thesis StatementThis thesis studies the present situation of group interaction and analyses the reasons that result in the inefficiency of the group interaction.12Contents1. Introduction12. Literature Review2 2.1 Definition of group interaction3 2.2 Previous research on group interaction4 2.3 Studies on group interaction in China53. Research method6 3.1. Research questions.6 3.2. Reflective research method.7 3.3 Research results.84. Discussion .94.1. Discussion of details.94.2. Discussion in relation to teachers part in group interaction.10 4.3. Discussion about students part in group interaction.115. Conclusion.12Bibliography131. IntroductionRecently, the use of group interaction in the classroom has become a widespread practice. It is originated in the United States in early 1970s. It makes substantial progress in the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. In the late 1980s to 1990s, the experiments of group interaction also appeared in China. Group interaction, which is part of cooperative approach, has come to be a hallmark of interactive language teaching. It involves small, heterogeneous teams, usually of four or five members, working together towards a group task in which each member is individually accountable for part of an outcome that cannot be completed unless the members work together; in other words, group members are positively interdependent. Brown (1994: 173) defines group work as “a generic term covering a multiplicity of techniques in which two or more students are assigned a task that involves collaboration and self-initiated language.” Although group interaction is important for language acquisition, there still exist many problems that have made it difficult to or