4. “My students seem to be more
interested in each other than in
what goes on in the classroom, so
their performance is poor.”
5. “Success depends less on materials,
techniques and linguistic analyses, and more
on what goes on inside and between the
people in the classroom.”
Earl Stevick
Teaching Languages: A Way and Ways, 1980
7. • Prehistoric man lived, learnt, gathered, invented,
created, survived through working in groups
• Group work is in our DNA
• Man is a social animal
• A group has more resources than any single one of
its members
• A group can support its members both materially
and psychologically
9. “It exists when two or more people define
themselves as members of it and when its
existence is recognised by at least one
other.”
R. Brown
Group Processes: Dynamics Within and Between Groups, 2000.
11. • General anxiety
• Uncertainty about being accepted
• Uncertainty about own competence
• General lack of confidence
• Inferiority
• Restricted identity and freedom
• Awkwardness
• Anxiety about using L2
• Anxiety about comprehending