Interactive Lexical Phrases in Pair Interview Tasks

Summary

I wanted to improve my students’ performance in pair interview tasks as they used a lot of mother tongue and sounded quite stilted. In order to identify lexical phrases they could use to make their interactions flow more smoothly, I made recordings of native speakers performing tasks from the coursebook. I then designed materials to direct students’ attention to these phrases by using the task recordings in class within a TBL framework.