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    • Christina Gkonou
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Elena Oncevska

This poster is titled ‘Outside the comfort zone: An experiment in group argumentative writing’. Having noticed that students working with their friends on academic writing tasks when tasks required group work sometimes led to forming cliques which negatively impacted both the class dynamics and their academic work (e.g. with the same writing problems recurring among the members of the group), I decided to conduct an informal classroom experiment. For the purpose of writing a group argumentative mini-essay, I asked my students to get together with colleagues they had not worked with before. Risking to interfere with their friendship patterns which often function as a powerful source of motivation, I set out to explore the value of getting students to work outside their comfort zone for the sake of additional exposure to “new” approaches to academic thinking, learning and writing. In this poster presentation I will discuss the main findings of my informal classroom experiment, foregrounding my students’ perceptions about the format of group work used and suggesting directions for the improvement of academic writing instruction along similar, collaborative lines.


Video of 3-minute talk and photo of poster below:                                     Back to Teachers Research! home

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    • Join us
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  • News
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    • ReSIG-GISIG project with Africa TESOL >
      • Pre-Conference Event (PCE) Africa TESOL
  • NEW! Resources
  • Scholarships
    • Scholarship Winners Gallery
  • Publications
    • Books >
      • Stories by Teacher Researchers in an Online Research Community (2019)
      • Empowering Teacher-Researchers, Empowering Learners (2018)
      • ELT Research in Action (2018)
      • Developing Insights into Teacher-research (2017)
      • Developing as an EFL Researcher (2017)
      • Teachers Engaging in Research (2016)
      • Teacher-researchers in Action
      • Teachers Research!
    • Newsletter >
      • Issue 35
      • Issue 34
      • Issue 33
      • Issue 32
      • Issue 31
      • Issue 30
      • Issue 29
      • Issue 28
      • Issue 27
      • Issue 26
      • Issue 25
      • Issue 24
      • Issue 23
      • Issue 22
      • Issue 21
      • Issue 20
      • Issue 19
  • Online discussions
  • Webinars
    • WEBINAR: Enhancement mentoring for teacher-research: a hopeful response to Covid-19
    • WEBINAR: The COVID-19 challenge and the teaching implications till now
    • WEBINAR: Conceptualising Practitioners’ Online Research in the COVID-19 Era
    • WEBINAR: Foreign language learner anxiety
    • Action Research: Collecting and analysing
    • Reflective tools for teacher development
    • EP in EAP webinar
    • Video in English language teacher education webinar
    • Webinar by Emily Edwards
  • IATEFL Conference ReSIG events
    • ReSIG PCE 2021
  • The MA ELT Quick Fire Presentation Event
  • ReSIG supported events
  • Past Events
  • Teacher Research reports
  • Teachers research! 1 April 2014
    • Background to 'Teachers Research!'
    • Introduction to the Day
    • Christina Gkonou
    • Katie Moran
    • Becky Steven & Jessica Cobley
    • Esma Asuman Eray
    • Jayne Pearson
    • Bushra Ahmed Khurram
    • Elena Oncevska
    • Claire Fielder
    • Yasmin Dar
    • Angie (Akile) Nazim & Emily Mason
    • Oriana Onate
    • Martin Dutton & Arizio Sweeting
    • Ana Inés Salvi
    • Cynthia James
    • Discussion of teacher-research
    • Harry Kuchah & Richard Smith
    • Inés Miller
    • Judith Hanks
    • Daniel Xerri & Odette Vassallo
    • Paula Rebolledo & Tom Connelly
    • Final reflections
  • Social Networks
  • In the World
    • Cameroon
    • Chile
    • India
    • Kenya
    • South Eastern Europe
    • Turkey
  • Archive