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GROUP WORK

considered as a skill

three key competences

Social and civic competences

Learning to learn

Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship

ADVANTAGES

DISADVANTAGES

- Increases language practice opportunities.

- Improves quiality of students talk.

- Helps individualize instruction.

- Promotes affective climate.

- Motivates students to learn.

- Learner autonomy.

- Lazy students may take advantage of group work.

- Use of the mother tongue in monolingual groups.

- Discipline passive inte form of non-participation.

- Surrounding social climate or cultural context.

Avoid this problems

careful planning and monitoring.

- Set clear classroom instructions.

- 2 to 4 students per group.

- Provide general approval and support.

- Help students having difficulties.

- Set a time limit.

- Feedback.

MANAGING GROUP WORK IN THE CLASSROOM

COLLABORATIVE/COOPERATIVE LEARNING

main goal structures

Competitive goal structure

Individual work

Collaborative goal structure

Factors to be succesfull

Verbal interaction

Individual accountability

Sufficient social skills

Team reflection

Positive interdependence

INDIVIDUALIZATION

giving learners a degree of freedom

factors to achieve individualization

- speed

- level

- topic

-language skill