Exploring Classroom Seating Arrangement and Its Effect on Children Behavior in EFL Class: A Review

Abstract

Teaching English to Young Learners (TEYL) is not a new thing for Indonesian practitioners. There are many factors must be considered by the teacher, one of them is classroom arrangement. The seating arrangement has significant influence on children behavior and their performance. Therefore, the aims of this study are to investigate the types of children seating arrangement and its effect on their behavior. This paper reviews the previous studies which investigated the impact of seating arrangement on the children behavior. It also presents literature review of the types of seating arrangement which can be used by the teacher. There are five studies which included and most of them use interview and questionnaires to gain the data. The different results are presented in this paper but most of the studies agree that managing seating arrangement in classroom has positive influence on children social environment. However, traditional classroom and row seating arrangement are mostly used by the teacher in managing the classroom environment.