APPLIED LINGUISTICS for BA Students in English
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
Classroom arrangement – various work-forms in classes
Groupwork
Students in groups can write a group story or they can role play a situation involving four or five students. Small groups of around four or five students provoke greater involvement and participation than larger groups.
Advantages of groupwork:
- like pair work it dramatically increases the amount of talking for individual students,
- personal relationships are less problematic here, there is a greater chance of different opinions and varied contributions than in pair work,
- there are plenty of chances to cooperate and negotiate with one another than in pair work,
- it promotes learner’s autonomy.
Disadvantages of groupwork:
- it can be noisy,
- some teachers can lose control over the class,
- sometimes groups are fossilized, some of the students are passive whereas others may dominate,
- it can take longer to organize groups than pairs.
