4.2.1.3. Input/output 2. Let us elaborate this last point a little. In the ®nal lesscontrolled
or uncontrolled phase of the model, the learners' attention will mostly be
on what they are communicating, not so much on how they are communicating it;
that is to say, psychologically they will be processing with a top-down orientation.
But the work done in the earlier phases of the model will have prepared the learners
in appropriate ways: among other things, to pronounce appropriately at least some
of the language they need. In other words, the accuracy practice of output 1 provides
support for the ¯uency practice of input/output 2. Returning to our lesson
based on the dialogue between two friends, in order to create a similar dialogue
using their own information in the input/output 2 stage, the learners may need to
have listened to the original dialogue in input 1 with a focus on the interpersonal
information expressed in it, through intonation, etc., in addition to the ideationfocused
tasks. For example, in the dialogue they listened to let us assume the friend
who is being told the story expresses surprise with the utterance Did he? (with a
rising tone). Assuming that one of the purposes of the input/output 2 activity is to
tell the interlocutor a story that is surprising in some way, a listening task focusing
on this use of intonation may occur immediately after the ideational one(s), or may
be postponed till just before input/output 2, to allow maximum transferability to
this task, and to any use the learner might make of the TL beyond the classroom.