Online Breakout Rooms: Jigsaw Discussions and Presentation Practice

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Cover of English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 2

This is a step-by-step guide to helping students use online breakout rooms to work in groups to become “experts” in a topic, then share their knowledge with other students in a jigsaw format, as a way to interact and prepare to give more formal presentations.

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Terence McLean

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Cover of English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 2

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English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 2

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