Recent developments in the fields of discourse analysis, conversational analysis, and corpus analysis suggest that discourse can be compartmentalized into a number of speaking situations and genres, and that successful L2 speakers should be able to operate in these situations and genres (Roger, 2006). Drawing on Jones (1996) and Burns (1998), Richards (2006) categorizes speech activities as talk as interaction, talk as transaction, and talk as performance. Talk as interaction is defined by Richards as referring to what is normally meant by ‘conversation’, which describes interaction that serves a primarily social function. Talk as transaction is defined by Richards as referring to situations in which the focus is on what is said or done. Talk as performance is defined by Richards as referring to public talk, i.e., talk that transmits information before an audience, which follows a recognizable format and is close to written language rather than conversational language