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Background Traditional lectures are still one of the best methods to teach “information” to large amount of student. Lecture method is an economically benefit way to deliver the subject content. But students typically have a 10 to 20 minute attention span as shown in below figure 1. Fig 1 Student’s performance over 60 minutes lecture Source: Preparing To Teach, Gibbs & Habeshaw, pp 26 Objectives The main objectives of this research were, Identifying the types of lecture breaks Identifying how effectively introduce the lecture breaks in a lecture to recover the students’ attention Identifying the effect of lecture breaks on student’s attention in the teaching learning process Research Design/Materials and Methods • Sample group - pre service teachers • 51 students were selected randomly in both Sinhala and English medium • Data collection was done by using discussions, observations, questionnaires and interviews. • For identifying the types of lecture breaks, various articles and books were referred Cont.…. • Applied for the separate lectures and examined the student’s behaviour and their engagement for the corresponding lecture. • Finally by giving some questions and getting feed backs related to the corresponding lecture, identified the effect of lecture breaks on student’s attention in the teaching learning process. Results/ Findings Identified practicable lecture breaks to apply for the lectures, • Group activities • Pair-group activities • Individual activities • Incomplete handout • Presentations • Discussion • Questioning • Five minutes lecture breaks • writing notes
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