The Nature of Turn Taking Patterns in Group Discussion: 10+2 Students of Cruise Private School in Focus
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2008-07
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
This study was carried out to describe the nature of turn taking patterns
among Grade 12 students of Cruise Private School in their group
discussions to see the level of students participation and to explore the
involvement of the teacher and group leaders in giving and taking turns.
For the study, 18 students of grade 12 students of one section were
selected. The students were grouped in to three with six members in
each. The data was gathered by video recording the discussions and was
analyzed using Allwright’s (1980) model.
The overall result showed that the majority of the turns were taken by
the students, i.e. (124 or 65.26%) out of the total turns of 190. From
these, the great majority of the turns were taken trough self-initiated
moves. On the other hand the teacher and the group leaders together
took 66 turns or 34.74% out of the overall turns of 190.
The findings further indicated that, out of the overall total of 93 turns,
the majority was made by the students, which is 56 or 60.23%. The
teacher and the group leaders made a total of 18 or 19.35% and 19 or
20.43% respectively.
Finally, female Vs male students level of participation indicated that,
from the total of 169 turns, the great majority of the turns were taken by
male students (116 or 68.64%) and female students took the lesser turns
(53 or 31.36%).
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Nature of Turn Taking Patterns in Group Discussion