Using project work for teaching English — illimitable possibilities

Project work can cover many diverse activities outside the conventional methods of teaching. It can include management games, role playing, extended essays, taped interviews, surveys, work diaries, mock newspapers, posters and films. An all‐embracing definition might say that it was activity in which students were involved in meaningful situations in the process of acquiring new skills and a greater degree of insight. Projects are also frequently characterized by the use of multi‐media material both for presentation to the student and for the student's work itself. There is a danger that it appears mere gimmicks, and so we must ask what the advantages and disadvantages of the project method are in teaching English.