Investigating Effectiveness of Group Work Implementation In ELT Classes: The Case Of Grade 10 Students At Gute Secondary School
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2024
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Addis Ababa University
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According to Brown (2014), language teaching has shifted towards authentic use of language in classrooms, emphasizing interpersonal relationships and cooperative strategies. Organizing and implementing group work enriches students’ language knowledge and use in daily life. It enables students to communicate genuinely, spontaneously, and meaningfully in a second language, facilitating interactive language acquisition. This study was done on investigating of group work the implementation in EFL classes at Gute Secondary School, focusing on Grade 10. It was aimed a t assessing students’ interactions and participation in performing group work activities in language teaching and learning activities. The objectives of the study were focusing on how teachers were implementing and students were interacting in groups to what extent did group work develop students’ communicative skills. To accomplish the study, a descriptive survey design was used to investigate the problems existing when implementing group work in teaching English, having employed both qualitative and quantitative methods, with random sampling for students and availability sampling techniques for teachers. Observation, interviews and questionnaires were used as data collection tools. The collected data were presented, interpreted, and analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. Group work was organized to enable students to use English effectively. The result of the study revealed that learners were having low interest, shyness, and dependency on teachers observed. Performance-based communicative skill was not practiced. The teachers were challenged by classroom discipline and monitoring group work. The participants were using native language resulting to ineffective group work implementation Therefore; the researcher recommended that the students should take responsibility for their learning. Students were advised to shift their focus from language structure and knowledge-oriented goals to communicative and interactive language goals, where they could use the language effectively. Stakeholders in education were encouraged to contribute to enhancing the effective implementation of group work in language teaching and learning classrooms.