Collaboration among teachers has been considered significant, though implementing it in
the real context is very difficult due to individualistic attitude of teachers. It has been
considered to be a herculean task imparting language skills to second language learners in
a larger classroom wherein the learners would be mentally distracted very easily. Teachers
who inspire learners are hardly found these days. Introduction of language laboratories
and technology integration in classroom teaching do not make much impact on the attitude of learners as each of the students has been struggling with various kinds of inhibitions
and technology-assisted distractions. Hence, creating conducive classroom is the need of
the hour. Conducive classroom refers to the classroom which creates an appropriate
environment for both learning and teaching to take place simultaneously and successfully.
Such classroom also needs to carefully consider and choose the most suitable technology
and the course content. Since creating conducive classroom depends much on human
factor, change in the classroom pattern is possible on a daily basis. The teacher, being the
catalyst for the smooth flow of teaching learning process, is expected to create an amiable
learning environment. In a large classroom, when two or three teachers work together to
deliver the course content, it becomes more lively and interesting for the learners. Hence,
in this paper, it is established that team teaching helps to create conducive classroom for
both teaching and learning.
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