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GDOI treatment structured through Tuckman's four stages of group development

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Description

The treatment followed Tuckman's (1965) four stages of group development: Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing, which the article says "have a great impact and relevance for the study of the classroom context". Over a 45-day semester with three 90-minute sessions per week, both groups received discussion topics from Four Corners 4; the experimental group worked with as much pair and group interaction as possible while the control group worked mostly individually.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • A thirty-day period of time lapse before the post-test, with the semester lasting forty five days and classes meeting three times weekly for 90 minutes

Constraints

  • The control group had no or little interaction with peers, performing mostly individually

Target Learners

  • intermediate EFL learners aged 18-35 at a language institute

Learning Goals

  • L2 speaking ability
  • willingness to communicate

Claims

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Key Sources

  • Mohsen Alikhani & Esmaeil Bagheridoust. (2017). The Effect of Group Dynamics-Oriented Instruction on Developing Iranian EFL Learners' Speaking Ability and Willingness to Communicate. English Language Teaching, 10(11). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v10n11p44
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title GDOI treatment structured through Tuckman's four stages of group development
description The treatment followed Tuckman's (1965) four stages of group development: Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing, which the article says "have a great impact and relevance for the study of the classroom context".
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