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Why use group and pairwork ?
• It greatly increases the amount of time
students can talk in class, especially in larger classes.
• It creates
a need to communicate and an exchange between people.
• It encourages
a better atmosphere in the class.
• It helps students feel confident
in using the language.
• Students learn by doing things for themselves
and this provides an opportunity for them to do so.
• It ensures
students are working while the teacher works with a certain
group/pair.
• It creates opportunities for students to practise using
English.
How can we provide appropriate support for pairwork/ groupwork?
We cannot help students with everything, but we can provide them
some kinds of assistance:
1. make sure you arouse students' interest
in the activity by providing a motivating leading. 2. make sure
students have got the language they need to do the task so try and
predict the words and language students will need to do the activity
both vocabulary and functional language, and provide language
prompts or even models to help them to carry out an activity.
4. be
sure of your aims and give clear instructions.
5. try to use
classroom language as much as possible to create an English speaking
atmosphere. You may also need to adjust your speed and volume and
should repeat or rephrase to help students.
6. give students a clear
and understandable purpose for doing the activities and always
remember to set a time limit.
7. remember to move around to
facilitate students with language or general knowledge and to ensure
that they are on task.
8. know how you are going to correct. You
should know your aims and whether you are going to ignore errors,
deal with the main ones or sometimes even try and correct them all.
You also should take advantage of your students to self correct or
peer correct.
9. don't forget to provide feedback. You should always
provide feedback to the class as a whole and remember that praise
and encouragement are important.
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