Community circles in the development of A1 – Speaking skills

Abstract

Students in the A1 classroom are significantly immersed in the everyday performance in a captivated world with the use of technological tools, however, it seems that their routinely way of learning and the traditional teaching styles have put apart the interaction and socialization needed in order to create a good classroom learning environment based on respect, harmony, communication and freedom to express ideas that motivate them to produce skills and sub skills in the target language. Therefore, this study suggests Community Circles as a powerful source of building healthy, supportive, and strong assurance of the language production in the classroom community and it also pretends to show how their use in A1 level provokes a helpful and positive effect in students. Community Circles facilitate teachers a door to enter into the academic, social and emotional needs of their students. The current research is an experimental and explicative process under a deductive method and mixed quasi quantitative - qualitative investigation work which aims to come up with the importance of the use of Community Circles in the ESL classroom. As a result, a set of activities is proposed to rely on the use of Community Circles as a teaching strategy in order to build students’ knowledge.