USING
GROUP DISCUSSION IN WRITING
Definition of Group
Discussion
According to Azian (2006) Group
Discussion is a modern method of assessing students personality as well as
their communicative skills, It is both a
technique and a comprehensive tool to judge the worthiness of students and
their appropriateness for the task
Based on Xin. S & Liming.
Y (2005) Group Discussion is a form of
collaborative learning, is an old and well received method in language learning
and has proved affective in various kinds of skill learning
Simply from scrib.com the group
discussion in terms of definition, group discussion is an technique, an art,
where the recruiters do employ this
technique to select
students for the
jobs, they basically
asses the personality attributes
of the students
Group discussions help to summarize the
ideas and information that a group of informants may come to hold as a group,
rather than the information held by the individual members. The general idea is
that each participant can act to stimulate ideas in the other people present and
that by a process of discussion the collective view becomes greater than the
sum of the individual parts (Fernie. G 1994)
In addition the group discussion process
in which participants in the group present their opinions, argue on an issue,
and try to reach a consensus. The dynamics of group discussion depends on the
meeting participants’ tendencies to maximize the outcome of the discussion.
