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Today, I wanna address one of the problems which bothers me when I think about the evolution of our speaking club. As it’s obvious to anyone who’s been coming to our meetings for long enough, there are two major groups or categories all participants may be divided into. The first one includes those who speak English well and visit our meetings mainly for the purposes of entertainment. It looks like most of them believe that they’ve already achieved the peak of their linguistic capabilities, so all they need is to maintain their level, which weekly conversations provide an opportunity for. The second group consists of those whose English is not good (or not as good as they want it to be), so they are motivated predominantly by the desire to improve it.
Now, the problem is that the first group completely dominates our conversations, engaging basically in ‘self-serving’ behavior; whereas the second group, at least most of its members, passively accepts this state of affairs. For the last three months, more than 60 different people have visited the club. Most of them will never come again. What can be done to make the first group interested in the development of the club? Is there anything except the game, which may foster club’s consciousness, strengthen the second group and make our meetings more attractive for newcomers?
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