EXPLORING STUDENTS’ INDEPENDENCE DURING GROUP DISCUSSION IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING
Keywords:
group discussion, students’ independence, students’ participationAbstract
Group discussion is one of the methods that is beneficial in language learning. However, teachers sometimes cannot closely investigate the students’ activeness and independence in doing their work. Therefore, this study investigated the students’ independence as well as participation/activeness in practicing group discussion during their foreign language learning. By employing open-ended questionnaireand qualitative approach, the data collected from 15 participants of undergraduate students of English Department. The result shows that group discussion promotes a bunch of benefits not only in the terms of
students’ independence, but also students’ participation o r activ eness. Regarding students’ independence, group discussion does not diminish their independent in doing their work. They get more information and insight from the other members that strengthen their argument instead. Moreover, students also can participate in group discussion in the term of delivering ideas, meaning that the existence of other members does not reduce their courage in delivering ideas.
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