Module 3 - Step 2.1 - the advantages and disadvantages of different student groupings to make the lesson more efficient and successful

	Advantages	Disadvantages
Whole-class grouping	- Creates sense of belonging among the group members. - This is suitable for activities where teacher wanted to be in control. - It helps students to have interactions with each other. - It helps the teacher to have attention of the class. - Its arrangement is quicker and easier.	- It can be off-putting to  shy students, who do not want to speak or perform in front of the whole class. - It does not provide opportunities to all the students to speak.
Group work	- Personal problems are less problematic as compared to pair work. - Students are able to choose their level of participation. - Like pair work it increases the student talk time and student to student interaction. - This also encourages students to negotiate and talk in English.	- It can take longer to organize groups and get started. - Sometimes it is very noisy. - The exchange of ideas among the group members can slow down the activity. - Some group members can be more dominant, while passive students don't get enough opportunities to participate.
Pair work	- It helps teacher to work with certain pair while others can do their own work. - The students can express freely their ideas before putting them to the whole class. - Here stronger students can help weaker students very effectively. - Here all the students have enough talking time and allows greater student to student interaction. - This gives the students to share responsibility for work and share the burden of others. - This is easy and quick to organize.	- It is sometimes noisy and students can start talking in their native languages. - Some students may not like to work with their partner. - Some students just communicate with the teacher and they do not communicate with their partners.
Solo work	- This gives the teacher the opportunity to address the individual problems of the students. - This is less stressful for students as they do not have to perform in front of the class. - This helps to build the confidence of the students and make them self-reliant.	- This reduces the possibilities of student to student relationship. - This may sometimes take long hours to complete the activity.