Morimoto Yoko    Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Political Science and Economics    Position   Senior Assistant Professor
Language	English
Publication Date	2006
Type	International Conference
Title	Group dynamics: The key to our autonomous group projects.
Contribution Type	Sole-authored
Journal	K. Bradford-Watts, C. Ikeguchi, & M. Swanson (Eds.) JALT2005 Conference Proceedings. Tokyo: JALT.
Volume, Issue, Page	pp.232~ 242
Details	Yoko Morimoto and 14 former students in the EPC Group 2001 at Meiji University conducted a collaborative research on factors affecting their motivation in relation to the group formation process of this unusually successful learning group. They found that the absence of opportunities to get to know each other at the beginning of the course hindered the group formation process, and this led to primary tension in the group for a full year, leading to 10 of the 24 students leaving the course. However, given the opportunity to assist in the selection of new students the following year, they were able to express themselves, confront one another, and get to know each other more profoundly. The group became cohesive, autonomous, and efficient, resulting in numerous student-initiated English projects. Recommendations by the students and Morimoto for fostering group dynamics in L2 classrooms are provided.