Sensitizing Learners Towards a More Productive Classroom Participation: an 'Exploratory' Approach

The paper reports an informal study which used simple research techniques to sensitize a group of first year students at the National University of Singapore towards more productive patterns of classroom participation What started out as an innocent attempt at awareness-raising by involving the learners themselves in the observation and analysis of their classroom behaviour, soon took on the character of a collaborative investigatory enterprise in the spmt of Allwright's (1992) proposal for an "exploratory" teaching and learning approach - an approach which sets out to introduce a research perspective into classroom pedagogy.