The Effect of Project Work Teaching Technique on the Institute of Fine Arts students' efl reading and Writing Performance a thesis submitted to the Council of the College of Education Ibn Rushd

2.3.8 Project Work: Expected Problems
It is a common goal of each teacher to minimize possible and sources of stress in his/her work .As Legutke and Thomas
(1993;302) say, there is still no enough relevant data for a greater research which would make all aspects of project-work clear and accessible and which would enable a detailed teaching of project work at teaching faculties In this sense, Hutchinson (1992:16-17) discusses some of the possible problems with project work, as follows:
2.3.8.2 Use of the Mother Tongue
Teachers are afraid that when they leave their students to work on their own they will immediately switch from English to Especially in the group-work when the teacher cannot control all at once. Hutchinson agrees that most of the students will spend a lot of time speaking in their mother tongue. He suggests taking it positively. Students are working on a product which will be in English therefore using the mother tongue is only a means to use English at last. Sometimes the use of mother tongue is necessary and desirable (e.g. making interviews with people in mother tongue and writing about the results in English) and can lead to a realistic translation work done by the students.