Stry of higher and secondary specialized education of the republic of uzbekistan ferghana state university

Social interaction activities are role-playing and exploiting simulation.

[These create] a wider variety of social situations and relationships than would otherwise occur. Success is now measured not only in terms of the functional effectiveness of the language, but also in terms of the social acceptability of the forms that are used.

3. Oral Interaction Activities

Littlewood’s Oral Interaction Activities

Littlewood suggests two types of interaction activities. The first one is functional communication activities and the second is social interaction activities. There are four basic kinds of functional communication activities.

1. Sharing information with restricted co-operation

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  Identifying a picture from a set
  
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  Discovering identical pairs
  
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  Discovering sequences or locations
  
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  Discovering missing information
  
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  Discovering missing features
  
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  Discovering secrets
  

2. Sharing information with unrestricted co-operation

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  Communicating patterns and pictures
  
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  Communicating models
  
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  Discovering differences
  
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  Following directions
  

3. Sharing and processing information

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  Reconstructing story sequences
  
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  Pooling information to solve a problem
  

4. Processing information

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  Problem solving tasks
  

Littlewood’s second type of interaction activities are social interaction activities. They are divided into two.

1. The classroom as a social context

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  Using the target language for classroom management
  
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  Using the target language as a teaching medium
  
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  Conversation or discussion sessions
  
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  Basing dialogues and role-plays on school experience
  

2. Simulation and role-play

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  Role-playing controlled through cued dialogues
  
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  Role-playing controlled through cues and information
  
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  Role-playing controlled through situation and goals
  
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  Role-playing in the form of debate or discussion
  
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  Large-scale simulation activities
  
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  Improvisation