14.3.5.3
Information-gap activities
Information-gap activities
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these exercises, pairs of candidates are given incomplete information on
a card and one student has to elicit orally from the other the remaining
information to complete the task. Candidates can ask each other questions,
ask for clarification and ask their partner to explain things differently
if they do not understand, ie employ the interaction and improvisation typical
of natural conversation. To work well, the task requires students of broadly
comparable proficiency in the FL, since if one is appreciably better than
the other, he/she may dominate the exchange and not allow the other sufficient
opportunities to contribute. A variation on this is for the teacher-examiner
to take the other part; although this may be more demanding for the candidate,
it at least ensures all candidates deal with a partner who reacts in a similar
manner, thus improving the reliability of the test.
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