INSIGHTS ON BRAZILLIAN EFL CLASSROOM: GROUP WORK

Resumo

Group work became a major issue for classroom studies since the development of the Communicative Approach encouraging students to interact. Based on advantages and disadvantages of this approach as pointed by authors like Martine and Walters, this research represents an attempt to discover the view of teachers and students of Centro de Línguas para a Comunidade towards the use of group activities and pair-up tasks, taking into consideration the studies performed by Tsui, Brown, Littlewood and Martine. The results revealed that in general both students and teachers appreciate and consider group work an important feature to be explored inside classroom.