Saturday 4:45 - 5:35 PM
Ume Flower
The Use of Interviews in The EFL Classroom 

This presentation will focus on the importance of interviews in introducing Global Issues into the EFL classroom. Unlike interviews found in published textbooks which tend to be acted, those presented in this workshop will be spontaneous. 

In the ESL classroom such interviews can be used for activities associated with language acquisition. The interviews used will be of people from countries as diverse in culture as Brazil and Laos and will serve as useful supplementary material for the classroom. 

They enable the instructor to bring the world into the classroom through the backgrounds and experiences of real people. As such, they also present insights into the dynamics of the spoken language. 

All interviews are placed within a context and are supplemented by maps and background profiles. The four interviews presented in this workshop will reflect the work of both teachers and students and contain challenges and activities for the ESL classroom.