Types of Group Work
logical thinking Brown, 2001: 92. Furthermore, Harmer 2001: 39 states that children at this stage are in the process of searching their individual identity.
Therefore, they try to look for their peers approval and attention rather than teachers approval. Teachers’ approval and attention are not crucial for them at this
stage because they want to be accepted by their peers. Besides searching for individual identity, Douglas Brown states that the students at this age are
experiencing puberty in which they are not a child anymore but they are not an adult either. Therefore, problem may occur since they have to be treated specially,
not as children and not as adult. They are in an age of transition, confusion, self- consciousness, growing and changing bodies and mind. Brown suggests that
teachers should apply a very special set of consideration to teaching them Brown, 2001: 91-92.
Although Ur 1998: 286 in Harmer 2001: 38 suggests that children at this age are the best language learners, students at this age are also easily
provoked to be disruptive. This condition is the result of peers’ approval from which the students believe in. in addition of the disruptive behavior Jeremy
Harmer states that the disruptive behavior can be caused by boredom they cannot cope. Dealing with Penny Ur statement about the students’ potential, Jeremy
Harmer also says that students at this age have a great capacity to learn, a great potential for creativity, and a passionate commitment to things which interest
them in a condition they are engaged to be involved Harmer, 2001: 39. The word “interest them” probably should be emphasized, because looking back at the
Harmer statement Students are also easily bored. As a result of their boredom,
they tend to be disruptive, less motivated and less lively Puchta and Schratz, 1993: 1