The Fishbowl Motivates Students to Participate

Dutt, Karen M.

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“…Smart and Featheringham 2006). Fishbowl discussions have been shown to facilitate engaging classroom discussions (see e.g., Dutt 1997;Taylor 2007). Because my classroom had fixed seats in parallel rows, I could not adopt the fishbowl discussion format.…”

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“…The roundtable appears to be a more structured and professional pedagogical setup than the fishbowl (Dutt 1997) because it is instructor-led and involves instructor assessment, though both discussion formats would be considered student-centered (Taylor 2007). The roundtable can also be used for content delivery, whereas the fishbowl is better suited as a discussion activity (Young 2007).…”

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Fishbowl to Roundtable Discussions

Zhang

2013

College Teaching

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Fishbowl to Roundtable Discussions

Zhang

2013

College Teaching

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“…Fishbowl discussion has been used in various disciplines such as business communication (Smart and Featheringham, 2006), counselling (Hensley, 2002) and education (Wood and Taylor, 2007); despite the paucity of literature documenting the use of this teaching practice in ESL/EFL classrooms. Fishbowl discussion is ‘a strategy that holds students responsible for conducting a discussion’ (Dutt, 1997: 143). Its name is derived from the way seats are organized, with a small group of students discussing an assigned topic sitting at the centre (i.e.…”

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“…the fishbowl) surrounded by a larger group observing and evaluating the dynamics of the discussion. Research has shown that fishbowl discussion motivates students to participate and effectively fosters the engagement of students of diverse abilities (Dutt, 1997; Wood and Taylor, 2007).…”

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Using Public Exam Questions in Fishbowl Debate to Engage Exam-Oriented Students in Communicative Language Teaching

Yung

2020

RELC Journal

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This article introduces the use of public exam questions in fishbowl debate to engage highly exam-oriented secondary students with communicative language teaching (CLT). The practice aims to address the issue that many teachers of English as a second language (ESL)/English as a foreign language (EFL) in Asian contexts either teach to the test or implement CLT without catering for the students’ pragmatic needs to pass external assessment. A series of activities was implemented in a secondary school in Hong Kong to promote positive washback from the public exam. The author’s experience and reflections informed by ongoing dialogue with the stakeholders in the school and data collected from student focus group interviews suggest that the fishbowl debate encouraged students to use English for authentic and meaningful purposes, while appreciating its relevance to the writing exam. An important pedagogical implication is for teachers to balance CLT and exam preparation and help students to reach both their mastery and performance goals.

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“…For the 11th European Lupus Meeting in Düsseldorf in March 2018, we have tried the fishbowl method to increase participation at all levels. Fishbowl is an interactive and dynamic technique with a group of discussants sitting in an inner circle that contains an additional empty chair and surrounded by the audience in an outer circle 1. The empty chair can be occupied by any member of the outer circle at any time to join the discussion immediately.…”

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