Participants also used questions to check if students knew what they were expected to do and asked students to re-tell instructions to a partner to help reinforce their instructions and what learners had been asked to do. Language learners “…actively try to make sense, i.e. to find and construct a meaning and purpose for what adults say to them and ask them to do” (Cameron 2001:19). Checking the comprehension of instructions would appear to be an important strategy to use in the classroom and may provide the teacher with an indication of how much learners have recalled from discussion, instruction or previous lessons.