Question

What kind of language activities lend themselves to group work in the classroom? How would you organize and monitor group work in the classroom?What are the specific advantages of group work? How would you resolve a few problems that might crop up during group work?

Answer 1

The tendency with primary learners is to treat the class as a whole group and underestimate their ability to work in pairs or in small groups. Even very young learners can become independent in their learning and guided early on they will be more likely to grow into autonomous and successful language learners.

The advantages of pair work and small group work

Gives learners more speaking time.
Changes the pace of the Lesson.
Takes the spotlight off you and puts it onto the Children
Allows them to mix with everyone in the Group.
Gives them a sense of achievement when reaching a team goal
Teaches them how to lead and be led by someone other than the Teacher .
Allows you to monitor, move around the class and really listen to the language they are producing.