there is a debate competition in your school next month. The motion of the debate is: "actions speak louder than words". you can place your views either 'for the motion' or ' against the motion'. complete it within 150 words.
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Explanation:
The use of group work in classroom second language learning has
long been supported by sound pedagogical arguments. Recently,
however, a psycholinguistic rationale for group work has emerged
from second language acquisition research on conversation be-
tween non-native speakers, or interlanguage talk. Provided carefulattention is paid to the structure of tasks students work on together,
the negotiation work possible in group activity makes it an
attractive alternative to the teacher-led, “lockstep” mode and a
viable classroom substitute for individual conversations with native
speakers.
For some years now, methodologists have recommended small-
group work (including pair work) in the second language classroom.
In doing so, they have used arguments which, for the most part, are
pedagogical.
While those arguments are compelling enough, groupwork has recently taken on increased
psycholinguistic
significancedue to new research findings on two related topics: 1) the role of comprehensible input in second language acquisition (SLA) and 2)the negotiation work possible in conversation between non-nativespeakers, or
interlanguage talk.
Thus, in addition to strong pedagogi-cal arguments, there now exists a psycholinguistic rationale for
group work in second language learning.
PEDAGOGICAL ARGUMENTS FOR GROUP WORK
There are at least five pedagogical arguments for the use of groupwork in second language (SL) learning. They concern the potentialof group work for increasing the quantity of language practiceopportunities, for improving the quality of student talk, for individ-ualizing instruction, for creating a positive affective climate in the