Interaction patterns

Using different interaction pattern will strongly favor students ‘learning in class. For establishing patterns we should take into account different kinds of assessment ( diagnosis, progress, etc). Based on this, I change with a certain frequency who my students sit down and work with.

Knowledge level differences are to be considered by the teacher, a slow learner may be assisted by an advanced learner in class, even sometimes better helped than by the teacher. It is common that between the students themselves there is more confidence than between the teacher and the students.

It is perhaps important to highlight that teachers must previously value the existing personal relation between the students he wants to sit down together.

Interaction pattern is not only matter of sitting students together; but also when it comes to work in pairs or group, teachers should likewise make changes. We think that in a way a student interacts with different students, the scope of language learning goes wider as nobody in class manages the language in the same way; everybody uses different structures, words, phrases and even pronunciation patterns, so for one student interacting frequently with a different student will simply make him able to enrich his language from varied sources, will favor peer assess and it will make finally the student to carry out a process of self-assessment that will lead him to self-correct mistakes and better up his language as such.