Professional Competence of a Foreign Language Teacher

Lack of 
organisation 
can cause serious problems in interactive classrooms.One more challenge 
that leads to poor and unsuccessful group work is 
dominance of some group members 

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over others 
on the one hand and 
diffusion of responsibility 
of some participants on the 
other. This is where teacher has to motivate students who are reluctant to participate and 
encourage the shared responsibility. If 
group work is overexploited, 
used 
indiscriminately or too frequently, it may lose its effectiveness. Thus, teachers should use 
this type of work appropriately and according to the situation.
Groups can be organised on 
homogeneous 
or 
heterogeneous 
basis depending on 
teacher‘s objectives. An important issue to consider is the 
number of people in group
. 
All groups are classified as those having even and odd number of people. Y. Polat says 
that 
groups of two people 
can share information and have low chances of disagreements. 
Groups of 
three people 
are the most stable ones but there is a risk of two people 
dominating over the third person. 
Groups of four-five 
are also the most stable ones. Such 
groups are big enough to stimulate work and to exclude dominance of some members over 
others. The group of 
more than six people 
seems ineffective because of limited 
contribution of every student into the group work.
In conclusion, group work as a type of classroom organisation is effective if students 
are motivated in obtaining certain knowledge or experience in a particular situation, when 
they have enough language practice and may evaluate the completed work and the 
contribution of everybody into the success or failure of the group. 
There may be some other ways of setting up the communicative activities. They are: