Abstract
Peer scaffolding as an important index of active student-student interaction has already aroused researchers’ interests. In addition, the application of Dynamic System Theory in language study provided researchers with a new perspective. The author conducted an eight-week research in a foreign language university in China. 56 non-English major sophomores from two classes participated in this study. The results indicated that students’ interaction in small group discussion was a dynamic system and it had all the dynamic system features such as unpredictable, sensitive to initial conditions, open, complexity, etc. With the results of this investigation, the current study concludes with some suggestions for future group discussion design.
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