Observing Pair-Work Task in an English Speaking Class
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2014
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This paper reports on students’ pair-work interactions to develop their speaking
skills in an ELT classroom which consisted of international learners. A number of
16 learners of intermediate proficiency with IELTS score band 5.5 were observed.
The teacher had paired those he considered among them to be the more competent
ones (hereafter, stronger) with the less competent ones (hereafter, weaker);
therefore, eight pairs were observed during the lesson. The task given to the
students was to express ‘Agree and Disagree’ in the context of giving opinions
related to social life. Based on the observations, the task was successfully
implemented by six pairs; thus, the two others faced some problems. From the first
pair, it was seen that the stronger student had intimated the weaker one into
speaking during the task. The other pair, who was both of the same native, did not
converse in English as expected and mostly used their native language to speak
with one another presumably due to respect from the stronger student towards the
weaker one. In situations like this, when pair-work becomes unproductive, rotating
pairs is recommended to strengthen information sharing and assigning roles to
avoid a student from taking over the activity from his or her pair. In conclusion,
pairing international learners with mixed speaking proficiency by teachers must be
conducted as effectively as possible by initially identifying their ability and
learning culture to profoundly expand the students’ language resources.
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International Journal of Instruction
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Achmad, D. & Yusuf, Y. Q. (2013). Observing Pair-Work Task in an English Speaking Class . International Journal of Instruction , 7 (1) , . Retrieved from https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/eiji/issue/5136/69992
