Distraction in discussion occasionally occurs among children. This occurred if the\nchildren were discussing without supervision by the teacher in the classroom.\nChildren have different ideas and experiences and with their knowledge, they tend\nto be distracted and discussed things that they had experienced before. The\nobjectives of the paper were to determine the distractions in discussion among\nchildren and to analyze the discussion by using the pragmatic approach. One\nfocus group which consisted of ten students aged 10 year old participated in this\nstudy. The children were in pairs and questions were asked by the teacher in\norder to start the discussion. The discussions were taped and selected extracts\nwere analyzed by using the pragmatic approach was utilized. The results of the\nstudy revealed that the students were distracted during the discussion but\ncontinued with the discussion when the teacher asked questions. On the other\nhand, the subjects gained confidence during the discussion and were able to\naccept the suggestions and ideas from their friends. It is hoped that future study\nwill concentrate on the studies on distractions during hands-on activities to\nenhance learning.

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