Nursing students have had little opportunity to speak English in their high school classroom, where they were taught by the Grammar-Translation method under authoritative teachers. In this paper I examine how group dynamics affect these students when they try to improve their ability to speak English. Fear and anxiety may hinder their learning. If they can have positive inter-member relations in groups, they will probably enhance their L2 acquisition. Their speaking ability improves when the

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... up dynamics make their inter-and intra-relationships positive.