Editing Communicative language teaching (section)

=== Interviews ===
An interview is an oral activity done in pairs, whose main goal is to develop students' interpersonal skills in the TL.<ref name=":05">{{Cite book|title=Communicative Language Teaching in Action: Putting Principles to Work|last=Brandl|first=Klaus|publisher=Phil Miller|year=2007|isbn=978-0-13-157906-4|location=Upper Saddle River, NJ|pages=284–297}}</ref>

Example:
# The instructor gives each student the same set of questions to ask a partner.
# Students take turns asking and answering the questions in pairs.
This activity, since it is highly structured, allows for the instructor to more closely monitor students' responses. It can zone in on one specific aspect of grammar or vocabulary, while still being a primarily communicative activity and giving the students communicative benefits.<ref name=":05"/>

This is an activity that should be used primarily in the lower levels of language classes, because it will be most beneficial to lower-level speakers. Higher-level speakers should be having unpredictable conversations in the TL, where neither the questions nor the answers are scripted or expected. If this activity were used with higher-level speakers it wouldn't have many benefits.<ref name=":05"/>