近二十年来,合作学习作为一种教学策略在我国大学英语教学中得到广泛运用。而在具体实施过程中,如何结合学生、教师以及学校实际开展有效的合作学习具有很强的挑战性。本文就一次失败的合作学习进行回顾、反思,以作进一步探索的引子,从而不断提高大学英语教学质量。 In the recent two decades, cooperative learning as a teaching strategy has been widely used in college English teaching in our country. In the process of concrete implementation, how to combine students, teachers and schools to carry out effective cooperative learning has a very strong challenge. In this paper, we review and reflect on a failure of collaborative learning and make introductions to further explore the quality of college English teaching.