Efl Learners Attitude Towards Group Work The Case Of High And Low Achievers

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The study sought to describe and compare high and low academic achiever students' attituderntowards group work, It has used samples of grade 12 students from Belay Zeleke preparatoryrnschool. Sixty sample students were selected from ten sections through purposive samplingrntechnique so that there were thi rty high achiever and thirty low achiever students for this study. 'rnTo achieve the intended goal, the study has used descripti ve-comparative study design andrnqualitative & quantitative data gathering methods. Kouros & Abrami's (2006) questionnaire wasrnemployed with important modifications. The modified self-report questionnaire with 29- itemsrnadministered to all sample students. In addition, interview was used with 10 high and lowrnachiever learners. Data obtai ned through the questionnaire were analyzed using StatisticalrnPackage for Social Sciences (SPSS) version-l3. The descriptive stati stics such as mean values,rnstandard deviations, and Independent T-test were considered in the di scussion. During therndi scussion, data obtained through the self report questionnaire were deeply analyzed togetherrnwith the data obtained through interview.rnResults of the study revealed that both group of high and low achiever students have a favorablernattitude towards group work and no significant difference was found in their attitude. Based onrnthe data gained it is concluded that academic achievement level does not play any significant rolernin differentiating learners' attitude towards group work.rnSince the students do not vary in terms of their group work attitude based on the level of theirrnachievement, it is recommended that teachers of English should incorporate group workrnactivities in their teaching strategies by taking all necessary preparations. Students must alsornprovide input in designing group work like group size, group composition, the time needed, andrnother related things.

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