Language production within a meaningful context and through interaction has been demonstrated to assist second language acquisition (Ellis & He, 1999). According to Swain’s (1993) output hypothesis, language production within a meaningful context and through interaction: (1) provides t he oppo rt unit y for ‘co nte xt ua l’ use o f lingu ist ic reso urc es, w hic h lead s to ‘automaticity’ in language use; (2) forces ‘syntactic processing’, where students pay more attention to syntax when listening in order to use it in their own language production later on; (3) helps students to ‘recognize what they do not know or know only partially’; (4) provides opportunity for ‘testing out hypotheses’ in order to see the linguistic features that work.