Peer assistance in EFL mixed level groups

This study analyses whether students with better command of English help their peers during groupwork. The data was gathered by a student-teacher of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) during the internship in the Official Master's Degree in Teaching, offered by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelon...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Camps Portet, Marta
Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:211090
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/211090
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Avaluació educativa -- Catalunya
Educació -- Investigació -- Catalunya
Aprenentatge -- Treball en equip
Aprenentatge en equip en educació
Educació secundària obligatòria
Interacció educativa
Treball en equip -- Aspectes socials
Anglès -- Ensenyament -- Educació secundària obligatòria
Atenció a la diversitat -- Educació secundària obligatòria
Descripción
Sumario:This study analyses whether students with better command of English help their peers during groupwork. The data was gathered by a student-teacher of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) during the internship in the Official Master's Degree in Teaching, offered by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Four groups of students of 2nd grade of compulsory secondary education from a state school in a locality near Barcelona were video recorded while doing a cooperative learning activity. Several excerpts were transcribed and interpreted through a content analysis of students' interaction as a way of observing the strategies they used to help their peers. A survey was also conducted among fifty students after the activity. The questionnaire contained six closed-ended and two open-ended questions, and it took around five minutes to answer. The former were analysed through descriptive statistics whereas qualitative content analysis was applied to the latter.