Ayat collected feedback directly afterwards, asking the learners to rate the activity
(from 1–10) and write a comment about what they thought. She usually asks her
learners for their instant feedback after a new classroom activity ‘to get their real
feelings of how the experience was’ (Tawel, 2012). Analysing this afterwards, she
believes it clearly demonstrated the educational and cultural value of the experience.
Here is a sample of what the learners wrote:
■■ ‘We learned a lot of things about Argentina and had a great deal of fun’.
■■ ‘It’s good to know about other countries ... I hope we can do it with other countries’.
Ayat then asked the learners to do some writing based on the interview. The learners
chose the genre. Some of them wrote it in the form of a dialogue, or as a diary entry,
others as a biography, or a story.