I am a highschool English teacher from Nicaragua. I have tried to use many different strategies in order to achieve communicative interaction from my students, and I´ve realized that this approach does not fit the characteristics of my students..! Firstly because they are a large group of 65 peers , and for me its too difficult to monitor amidst rows of sits.. discipline tends to be low and sometimes there is too much noise, both from the outside and from the very inside of the classroom.
They are over-aged students they aren´t likely to carry out certain games or activities that promote speaking; However some others, the same ones, are always willing to participate...
But the fact that affects the most the English teaching in Latin American contexts is the time allowed for each lesson(40min), counting with the fact that you have to check the assistance of 60 students or more..