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ELT Journal 1990 44(1):46-54; doi:10.1093/elt/44.1.46
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Pyramid discussions

R. R. Jordan

Tutor in English to Overseas Students in the Department of Education, University of Manchester, a post he has held since 1972. Prior to that he was British Council English Language Officer in Nepal and Sierra Leone. He has also taught in Finland and Denmark, and taken part in teacher-training courses in several European countries and China. He has an M. A. in Economics (Cambridge), PGCE: EFL (London), and Dip. App.Ling. (Edinburgh). He has published a number of books, mostly with Collins ELT in their Study Skills Series, the most recent of which is Language for Economics (Collins, 1986).

ESP materials are usually text-based: the resulting exercises may not be very stimulating, nor satisfy the students' need for spoken language practice. This article looks at some of the comments made on ESP classes. It then proposes the oral activity ‘pyramid discussion’, which involves the students in a problem-solving task based on small-group work. Finally, it looks at the language and interaction generated by the activity.


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