Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Best Friends In the class I am mentoring, I have three students who I have to work with everyday after school. Two out of three of my mentees are best friends and are constantly talking in their native language. I have tried seating them farther from one another when we all work together, or having me or the third student sit between them. The teacher of the class knows they talk a lot, but only tells me to address it myself. Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) Are these students in the ESOL program? If so, I would encourage them to use English as much as possible during instruction. This will help them not only learn English, but will help them gain more friends in the classroom. Maybe in the long run, this solution will cause them to not talk so much to each other and be more comfortable with other peers in the class, thus causing a balance in the amount of talking they do throughout the day.