>> Okay, this is an in class activity
which we call a signature activity.
Again, you have the translation for this.
What type of exercise is this?
>> Go ahead.
>> It's communicative.
>> Okay, how is it communicative?
>> So you have to interact with other students.
>> You do definitely.
Okay.
>> You have to be able to ask a question to get an answer
and to ask for a signature.
>> Okay, right.
So what's being communicated?
Is it truly communicative?
>> They are supplying information.
>> Are they supplying information?
Did you understand-- do you understand what they have to do?
Maybe not everyone had a chance to read it.
You go around the room, mingle around, and ask different people
in the class, "Do you call your parents often?
Do you often fall in love?
Do you play football?
You know, do you hate television?".
And whoever says, "Yes," to a question signs their name.
Okay, so is this an input activity, an output activity?
>> Both.
>> Sorry.
>> Both, I think.
>> It's both, excellent, okay.
It's both, right.
So if you said input you're right.
If you said output you're right.
It's both.
Okay, so students reading the sentences out loud
to their classmates are producing output, okay,
even though they're reading it.
They're still producing output,
and those who are listening are receiving the input.
Okay, so it is both.
But, again, coming back to the question.
I guess this module is not about communicative language teaching,
but would Lee and Van Patten consider this
to be a communicative activity?
Why or why not?
>> Because it's a first step toward the next activity could
be truly communicative where they have to come
up with the question, then interview someone,
and get more response than just yes, no.
>> Right.
>> That's a starting point to get them there.
>> Okay, definitely.
Is it communicative?
>> Actually, learners are trying to gather information and trying
to find out which one is Oui or Non,
so it's a quite communicative, I think,
in the learner's perspective.
>> Okay.
>> It's not a complicated one, but it's communicative.
>> Right, okay, so is any new information being conveyed,
I guess would be the question, right?
Is new information being conveyed?
Right, are the answers
of the classmates already known or anticipated?
>> No.
>> No. They're not.
Okay, so it is, again, on a very, very,
very basic level, communicative.