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Psychology and ELT - Social Exclusion

It is the simplest game in the world. It is called 'Cyberball'. The rules are very straightforward. There are three people. You are one of them (your hand is the one at the bottom of the screen). All these people have to do is toss a ball between them. Each person has a choice of who to toss the ball to. And so the 'game' starts. Everything is ok in the beginning; the player pass the ball between them and you get your fair share of passes. But then things change; the other two players gradually proceed to ignore you. They start tossing the ball between them and you are just left sitting dumbly there as the ball moves from one side of the screen to the other. Psychologists discovered that the experience can be excruciating... Now here is a bizarre finding: in another study they told subjects that there were in fact no other players -- that a computer randomly controlled whether they got the ball or not; incredibly, the experience was still painful if the subjects were excluded!! As EL teachers, our job is of course to teach English. Yet in trying to do so, we very often forget that there are other things that matter a lot more to our students. One of these is whether they feel they belong to the group. Unless they feel they do, chances are they are going to learn very little. So how can we ensure this precondition is met?    • Видео   To read an article on the 'Cyberball' experiment and some ways of fostering group cohesion just click on the link below [NB: To download documents from the site, you need to use Firefox or Internet Explorer] http://nic313.wix.com/nickmi#!article...