The pmpose of this study was to examine grade 11 students' level of participation inrnthe group discussions by taking turns in ELT classroom at Kokebe Tsibah SeniorrnSecondary School.rnThe study was conducted on thirty students along with their English teacher from onernsection. The students were divided into five groups and each group comprised sixrnmembers. Out of fourteen speaking activities presented in the newly developed grade 11rnEngli sh textbooks for both semesters, three group discussion tasks were randomly se lected.rnOf the three tasks, two were taken from Student's Book I for the first semester and one wasrntaken from Student's Book II for the second semester. For the two tasks, the videotapingrnwas made for three hours during the first semester and for the third task the videotapingrnwas conducted for an hom and twenty-five minutes dming the second semester. Taken as arnwhole, four homs and twenty-five minutes of videotaping was carried out in order torncollect data from the group discussions. Each group discussion was videotaped nearly forrneighteen minutes on each given task. The data were analysed by making a slight change ofrnAllwright's turn-taking categories developed in 1980. The results from the analysis of therndata showed that the sum total of 453 turns were taken in all the three group discussionsrnunder turn getting categories. Out of the aggregate turns (453), the students and the grouprnleaders took 156 turns in response to personal solicits. 70 turns were taken through selfinitiationrnby the group leaders and other students in the groups. The highest number ofrnturns (18 1) was used in di scomse maintenance under the category of 'Take' to keep therngroup discussions active. From 43 turns under the category of 'Make', the largest share ofrnturns were taken by the teacher and the remaining few turns were used by the group leadersrnand by other students in the groups.rnThe results also showed that a total of 307 turns were made across the catego ries ofrnturn giving. Turns observed under the categories of 'P' , '0' and '0' were 135,45 and 127rnrespectively dming the group discussions.