Types of interaction in

classroom
 INTERACTION PATTERNS
• Groupwork: students work in small groups on a task that entails interaction:
conveying information, for example, or group decision-making. The teacher
walks around listening and helping.
• Working in pairs: working in pairs gives individual students a lot of speaking
time. If working together, students will often have more confidence than when
completing exercises individually.
• Individual work: the teacher gives a task or set of tasks, and students work on
them independently; the teacher walks around monitoring and assisting where
necessary.
 Pair work

Advantages:
 Gives learners more speaking time
 Changes the pace of the lesson
 Takes the spotlight off you and puts it onto the children
 Allows them to mix with everyone in the group
 Gives them a sense of achievement when reaching a team goal
 Teaches them how to lead and be led by someone other than the teacher
 Allows you to monitor, move around the class and really listen to the language they are
producing
 Pair work

Disadvantages:
• Pair work is frequently very noisy
• Students often talk about something else
• Some students prefer to relate with the teacher rather than with other
learners
• The choice of partners can be problematic because there may be students
who are not keen on with some others student
 Group work
Advantages
Provides a larger pool of ideas
Results in more work being accomplished in less
time and in better quality products
Interaction among team members enhances the
knowledge of the whole team
Team commitment may stimulate performance,
motivation and attendance
Disadvantages
Some individuals are not compatible with team
work
Team commitments may overshadow personal
desires
Managment may recognize group achievement
rather than individual achievement
One negative person can demoralize the entire
team
 Individual work
Advantages Disadvantages

You become very efficient Peer pressure

Things get completed quickly Good networking opportunity
No chances of any conflicts Letting others win sometimes
You are praised for all the work done Not many skills
Easy to focus Too much of stress
More clarity Can be a bit boring
A challenge to work alone No one to motivate
 Types of Classroom Interaction
• Conversation with Learners
• Interactive Session
• Discussion and Debate
• Collaborative Learning
• Role Play
• Choral responses