When the teacher began to play the mini-lecture tape for the first time, she
generally paused the tape after a few sentences, to ask the students to identify the
vocabulary items they had practiced during the pre-listening phase, before she continued
the tape. After the students had listened to the entire mini-lecture for a few times, they
did some exercises related to what they had heard. The exercises during the listening
phase primarily involved indicating the main idea and the supporting details of the minilecture.
Then, the teacher played the tape one or two more times so that the students
could practice taking notes. Eventually, the teacher gave each student a transcript of the
mini-lecture.