4.4.3 Achievement in
communicative competence through group work
Results of class observation and Table A.6 reveal that
group work improves students' oral proficiency. One of the major finding that
I have also seen refers to the negative effects and difficulties that EFL
learners perceived in group work. The Table A.7 showed the causes for the
students inability to speak during English classes. These related mostly to
taking floor during group work activity. They are afraid to speak during group
work activity some are fear of making grammatical and pronunciation mistakes
while others said that they do not have a lot of vocabulary and also lack of
self-confidence.
Through my class observation and interviews, I realized
that students do not really work in group today because their teachers prefer
to use only individual work or pair work instead of group work. For them,
coronavirus has negative impact on group work that is why with the arrival of
the coronavirus there's no longer group work at school. School authorities
suspended group work in our secondary school at this time of pandemic and have
instructed teachers to use only individual work to be able to respect the
government's measures of one-meter distancing (also known as physical or social
distancing) in order to fight against the spread of the virus. All this is a
problem for learners and teachers. Low-level learners can no longer benefit
from the advantages of group work. Teachers make so much efforts to enable all
learners to have the same understanding what is not easy.
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