Observing Pair-Work Task in an English Speaking Class

dc.contributor.authorACHMAD, Diana
dc.contributor.authorYUSUF, Yunisrina Qismullah
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-22T10:09:19Z
dc.date.available2022-03-22T10:09:19Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.departmentİnönü Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAchmad, 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/5136/69992en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11616/56914
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Instructionen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.titleObserving Pair-Work Task in an English Speaking Classen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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