At the same time, they were required to stress the right words so that the meaning of the message could be transmitted fairly accurately. This component provided practice in interpreting meanings in both stressed, mildly stressed, and unstressed forms. In this way, students learned how to avoid stressing every syllable. In fluency practice, learners delivered prepared talks. Role play was introduced only in the latter part of the course when students became more confident and self-assured.
Role play is interactive and consists of a dialogue among several persons.
In addition, it involves an interpretation of gestures, movement, gaze, facial and body expressions. At the end of each session, participants completed a self-evaluation and feedback form. This particular self-evaluation was of great importance to the students as they had to reflect on their delivery based on the feedback of their listeners. The questions in the form were changed slightly for each session to prevent students from providing the same answers they had given earlier. However, adjustments were required.