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Title
Simultaneous Group Presentations
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Mark Brierley and Jonathon Adams
Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Japan
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Mark Brierley teaches courses in English language, dialects of English, and English as a global language at Shinshu University, Japan. His research interests include extensive reading, assessment, and curriculum development. Before becoming a teacher, he spent time in electronics manufacturing in Japan, in textiles in the UK, and environmental campaigning in the UK.
Jonathon Adams is a teacher at Shinshu University, Japan. His interests include applying multimodal texts in the English language classroom and other concerns in action research. Originally from North Yorkshire, England, he lives and works in Matsumoto city.
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Abstract
This paper offers a method of increasing the speaking time of students in class and reducing the audience size within oral presentations. We will show how classes can be split into various numbers of groups so that presentations can happen simultaneously. Issues involving classroom management, implementation, and participant roles will be covered in the context of the presentation classroom, within the broader context of communicative language teaching.
Key words: Presentations, classroom management, groups, communicative language teaching.
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