This document discusses group investigation, a cooperative learning strategy where students work in small groups to investigate subtopics of a larger topic. It is comprised of 3-6 members who freely choose their subtopic. Characteristics include investigation, interaction, interpretation, and intrinsic motivation. Important aspects are grouping students based on capability and planning. Advantages include motivating participation and engagement, while disadvantages include inability to cover all material and difficulty assessing individuals. Implementation involves the teacher presenting a topic, students generating questions, organizing into subtopics, planning, investigating, presenting, and evaluating their projects.

1. TEFL 2
GROUP INVESTIGATION
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2. Concept
Students work cooperatively
in small group
Consist of 3-6 members
Freely to choose the subtopic

3. Characteristic of Group
Investigation
Investigation
Interaction
Interpretation
Intrinsic Motivation

4. Important Things To Do GI
Need Group
Capability
Cooperative
Plan
Teacher’s
Role

5. Steps

6. Advantages
To motivate the class to participate and
ensure student learning.
The exercises push students to interact
more that they would have done in more
traditional class formats.
To encourage the students to remain
engaged with the group on various level.
To increase comfort levels in the group.
To provide opportunities for cooperative peer
group interaction, while also creating the
condition necessitating conflict resolution.

7. Disadvantages
It cannot cover the whole material.
It is difficult to assess personally.
It is only suitable for certain
material.
Group discussion is not usually
effective.
It needs much time to prepare the
material.
It is only suitable for high-level
students.

8. Implementation
Teacher presents the topic. The
topic is report text.
Teacher asks students to make some
questions about the report text.
Students generate questions for
inquiry based on this topic
Teacher categorize the question into
subtopics
Students sign up to be members of
the small groups that will investigate
the subtopic in which they are
interested.
Material : Report Text
Level : Senior High School

9. Groups plan their investigation
Groups carry out their
investigation
Groups plan their presentation
Groups make their
presentations
Teacher and students evaluate
the projects

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