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A small group can easily be dominated by one person When members of the group will not talk. Long silences. Being asked to contribute when you dont want to. Being asked to contribute when you dont want to. Being directly asked vague questions. A feeling of being assessed by the lecturer through your answers to questions and your attitudes. Sometimes you feel threatened by the closeness of the lecturers. There is a vast amount of research evidence on group work and it is in a constant state of expansion and revision. The fact remains that it can be described as work done by other people in other places for other purposes and this provides a ready excuse for teachers to reject it or at least ignore it. The notion of the teacher as researcher, therefore, has a lot to commend it.