What is ChatterBoxing? To the Teacher 1

Quite easily ChatterBoxing is the most important type of exercise from the very early life of the Group onwards. The single aim of the exercise is to give Students a direct experience in effective human communication. Very important useful by-products of the exercise are

• the possibility for the Students to practise all the four main skills, i. e. listening comprehension, speaking, reading comprehension, and writing;
• the possibility for the Students to build this sort of exercises into their other types of learning; and
• the intensive milling / mixing effect all across the Group.

Method: 6 to 8 different bits of information are distributed in the Group [ 1 for everyone]. After a quick, silent gist-reading, group-members pair-off and 'teach' their pieces of information all across the Group and 'learn' everybody else's piece of information in rotation.

• Group-members in speaker roles gist-read, describe, paraphrase, and / or demonstrate.
• Group-members in listener roles give free attention, and take notes.
• The exercise helps Students in fluency, deep understanding, and their growing resolution of information.

Warning: it takes some time for the newcomer to get to like this exercise since it is something they have never done before.