Designing groupwork activities: a case study
Durant, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5208-4718
(1996)
Designing groupwork activities: a case study.
In:
Language, literature, and the learner: creative classroom practice.
Carter, Ronald and McRae, John, eds.
Longman, pp. 65-88.
ISBN 0582293235.
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Abstract
This chapter starts from college teachers’ frequent recognition that pedagogic materials, in ‘language through literature’ as in many other fields, often work best when designed with a particular group (or at least kind) of student in mind, and with sensitivity to linguistic, cultural and other factors which characterise a given teaching situation. Despite widespread acknowledgement of the value in targeting materials this way, however, not much importance is given in teacher-development or during in-service training to understanding how workshop materials can be devised rather than merely used. This chapter considers aspects of groupwork-materials design including: choice of passage; devising tasks; implementing the activity in a classroom session; and evaluating the learning which takes place. Discussion is organised around an activity (based on Elizabeth Smart’s 'By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept', 1945) which was devised by the author for a given occasion. Participants' responses, when the activity was tested in two experimental classes, are reported.
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Additional Information: | Translated into Slovenian as, ‘Nacrtovanjeskupinskedejavnosti: studijprimera’, and re-published in Sodobna Pedogogika, vol 47, no 9-10 (1996), pp. 484-498, ISSN 0038-0474. |
Research Areas: | A. > School of Law > Law and Politics |
Item ID: | 8176 |
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Depositing User: | Devika Mohan |
Date Deposited: | 11 Oct 2011 06:50 |
Last Modified: | 09 Jun 2021 17:10 |
URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/8176 |
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