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2. 3.  Oral Interaction Activities 

 

2. 3. 1. Littlewood’s Oral Interaction Activities 

 

(Bygate, 1991: 67) 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 

•  Identifying a picture from a set 

•  Discovering identical pairs 

•  Discovering sequences or locations 

•  Discovering missing information 

•  Discovering missing features 

•  Discovering secrets 

 

2-  Sharing information with unrestricted co-operation 

•  Communicating patterns and pictures 

•  Communicating models 

•  Discovering differences 

•  Following directions 

 

3-  Sharing and processing information 

•  Reconstructing story sequences 

•  Pooling information to solve a problem 

 

4-  Processing information 

•  Problem solving tasks 

 

 

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Littlewood’s second type of interaction activities are social interaction activities. 

They are divided into two. 

1-  The classroom as a social context 

•  Using the target language for classroom management 

•  Using the target language as a teaching medium 

•  Conversation or discussion sessions 

•  Basing dialogues and role-plays on school experience 

 

2-  Simulation and role-play 

•  Role-playing controlled through cued dialogues 

•  Role-playing controlled through cues and information 

•  Role-playing controlled through situation and goals 

•  Role-playing in the form of debate or discussion 

•  Large-scale simulation activities 

•  Improvisation