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