Ayat’s class then started to prepare questions. She encouraged the learners to ask
any questions they wanted. She compiled these questions and sent them to the other
teacher in advance. Before the first interview, Ayat said that the students didn’t seem
that interested. She thinks this was because they ‘couldn’t really imagine how they
were going to be able to have an interview live’. However, once they entered the
computer lab and started the activity, they were ‘thrilled and motivated’ when they
saw the other teacher live on the screen and realised they were able to talk to her
directly. Ayat conducted the interview with two classes of lower secondary learners.
The second class did the interview after they had heard about the experience of the
first class, so they were more motivated beforehand, and even decided they wanted
to prepare something in Spanish to tell the other teacher.