Designing an Effective Breakout Room Activity for Engineering English Class in an Online Environment (66243)
Session Chair: Alan Mateo Munoz
Sunday, January 8, 2023 (19:45)
Session: Session 5
Room: Live-Stream A
Presentation Type:Live-Stream Presentation
This study is action research on breakout room activity the presenter has conducted since the academic year 2020. After most classes shifted to online mode during the pandemic, many universities encouraged language teachers to use breakout rooms to generate more interactions among students alternating face-to-face classrooms. However, teachers have still struggled to manage breakout room sessions successfully. Considering this problem, the presenter designed the task-based breakout room activity based on TBLT (Long, 2015; Swan, 2005; Ellis, 2003). In this student-led activity, students are divided into several breakout rooms in the middle of class time, where pre-assigned leaders are ready to give mini-lessons in English on themes related to the units they already covered. Group members focus on the lesson and answer questions prepared by a leader in English. The activity lasts approximately 15 minutes. In the presentation, the activity procedures and the worksheets the students use will be introduced. In addition, the way the presenter revised the activity based on the students’ comments every semester will be explained. Feedback from the students based on the survey at the end of the spring semester of 2022 will also be shared. Although more students enjoyed and showed interest in this activity every semester, the majority still chose face-to-face classrooms as an ideal language lesson style. Using Ozverir, Herrington, and Osam’s (2016) 11 key principles of Authentic Learning, the presenter will assess this breakout room activity, discover strengths and weaknesses, and suggest the future direction of this research.
Authors:
Miori Shimada, Anaheim University, United States
About the Presenter(s)
Ms Miori Shimada is a University Doctoral Student at Anaheim University, United States
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