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Peer teaching, peer learning: one model
Director of Education at the Australian College of English, Sydney. She has also taught EFL in Japan and the Sudan. Her current interests include teaching and learning English through content, giving grammar renewed emphasis in the classroom, and exam preparation classes.
Student autonomy, taking responsibility for one's own learning, negotiation of content and methodology, individualization, and task-based learning, are themes which have generated considerable discussion and documentation in recent years. This article describes a practical, experiment, in which students prepared video materials to present to each other, aimed at developing these themes in the classroom. Increased responsibility,participation, increased accuracy, and sustained motivation were among the effects observed, and—in addition to my own insights—student feedback confirms that this was a highly successful approach. There follows an attempt to provide a rationale for this success.