1. ADVANTAGES - TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF STUDENT PRACTICE

2.1. Advantages - To increase the amount of student practice: When students work in pairs orgroups they have more chance to practise. By working in pairs or groupsstudents often feel more willing to talk among themselves in a small grouprather than with a teacher in a large group so that it dramatically increases theamount of talking for individual students.- To increase learners’ confidence: The students feel much more comfortable tospeak foreign language with one or two other students rather than with thewhole class and the teacher. Especially shy students or ones who are not good atspeaking language yet feel more relaxed and self-confident trying to put theirlanguage abilities to a test during the activity and seeing how to use them. Thisencourages students to cooperarte with one another. - To motivate students’ fluency: While working in pairs or group abilities,students can use the language freely and express their opinions and thoughtswithout any restrictions. It is difficult not to get the impression that fluency canbe improved only during constant speaking practice in the atmosphere ofindependence and in the state of relaxation. - To increase students’ motivation: While working in pairs or groups, theactivities are available. As we know, a huge variety of activities influences thecourse of a lesson and its success. The more different activities the teacher usein the lesson, the bigger their motivtion is. In fact, students’ motivationincreasesbecause they are active and feel important during these activities. Inkeeping with this, the teacher is going to experiencesuccess in his/her workbecause motivated students are usually good languages learners and they alwaysmake progress.