Using Groups for Practising Language Orally in Form I

Abstract

In Malaysia, English is taught more as a ‘foreign’ language than as a ‘second’ language, particularly in rural schools. This indicates a need for each lesson not only to present a new piece of language in a situation which makes its meaning clear, but also to provide within the lesson the practice necessary to establish the form of that piece of new language (among other established pieces of language) so that it may be accurately recalled. Drill is a common way of doing this.