Document Type : Reasearch paper
Abstract
Hess (2001) comments on the challenges a teacher faces while handling large classes. The class may get out of control, or have management problems. Teachers are often overburdened by excess work in large classes and they do not have much time to provide individual attention to students.
It is possible for teachers to be affected by any bad experiences they had with group work and form a negative attitude towards it (Chapman et al., 2010). However, Hess (2001) notes that if group work does not work well one day, there may be hope for a different performance another day.
The main objective of learning a foreign language is to be able to communicate in that language. Improving the learners speaking ability in English is one of the most important challenges that teachers try to achieve. The problem we are confronted with here is that the importance of classroom participation is almost neglected and of little interest and the learners are just passive consumers of the knowledge.
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