Narrative inquiry is applied to discuss the knowledge generation in teacher and learner learning community,which consists of one English teacher and 27 freshmen in a university in China.It is based on the social constructivism and cooperative learning theories.With the guidance of constructivists' knowledge conception,it aims to illuminate how knowledge is generated in a learning community.Class observation,interview,and journals were applied to collect data in the research.Analysis of the data enables the researcher to arrive at the argument that learners' prior personal and students themselves as knowledge resource are vital for knowledge generation.Furthermore,learning community provide a safe context for knowledge generation.
