https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/52626 2026-04-23T05:26:59Z 2026-04-23T05:26:59Z Fenech, Joseph https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51656 2025-08-07T07:19:59Z 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Issues and events Authors: Fenech, Joseph Abstract: The progressive approach to teaching out-rightly condemns the type of classroom arrangement where pupils are seated in rows facing the teacher as being too rigid: assigning to pupils a listeners' and to teachers a talkers' role. Besides it impedes the creative organization of teaching and learning activities. Groupwork, to name one example, cannot be organized effectively within such a classroom set-up. Progressives, therefore, would do away with dual benches and have them replaced with tables around which pupils sit in groups. Such an arrangement, they claim, brings about more effective teaching and encourages pupils to work together in carrying out learning tasks. Emphasis, therefore, is placed on cooperation rather than competition.

1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Dalli, Carmen https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51655 2025-08-07T07:22:08Z 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: An approach to picture compositions Authors: Dalli, Carmen Abstract: Most language teachers would agree that teaching composition, the "putting together ... of a sequence of connected sentences" (Byrne, 1978) is a long and often intricate process involving the use of a progression of techniques ranging fr:om very controlled exercises to "free compositions". Along this continuum of methods one finds a major technique which Sarkar (1978) describes as unsurpassed as a stimulus to creative expression": the use of the Picture Composition.

1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Fenech, Michael https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51654 2025-08-07T07:23:19Z 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Creativity and drama Authors: Fenech, Michael Abstract: The aims and objectives of drama can be distilled into one general long-term aim - drama is concerned with the development of the individual's personality to the utmost. How is one to go about this task? This paper will deal with a factor which is considered of great importance in reaching the aims and objectives of drama - creativity. Creativity for whom - children or adults? But, even before this question is determined, we must ask ourselves a prior one: What is creativity?

1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Vassallo, Peter https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51651 2025-08-07T07:24:20Z 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The value of discussion in the teaching of English as a foreign language Authors: Vassallo, Peter Abstract: Few teachers of English as a foreign language will gainsay the value of discussion sessions as a means of enabling students to attain fluency of expression. The role of the tutor, however, in such an activity tends to be misunderstood and very often abused. This paper is an attempt to define and determine the teacher's role in conducting discussion sessions with groups of advanced students of English who are normally conversant with the language and wish to achieve a high degree of fluency. The discussion session tends to be used as a soft option where the tutor can safely depart from the rigorous demands of a language lesson and ease the pressure a little by withdrawing to the background and allowing the students to engage in a free-for-all debate on a controversial topic of his choice. This line of procedure tends to find support among teachers who would argue that the inhibiting presence of the teacher is eliminated and the students are thus free to give vent to their feelings. They would further argue, with some justification, that such discussions enable the students to establish a kind of camaraderie through the medium of argument for it is here that students of various nationalities are given the opportunity of 'tuning in'.

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