Have students exchange their writing, read it over, and briefly discuss their answers. Then ask the class as a whole what questions, confusions, or interesting perspectives arose when they compared answers. Reporting on Interviews Interview topics and target groups of interviewees may be either selected by the teacher or the students. If interviewees are not other students, then small work groups can be established.
Students can work together to plan the study, produce questions for interview protocols, etc.
All of this work can be reported out orally or in writing, perhaps in the form of progress reports to the teacher. Results can be analyzed by the groups. Results of the interviews may be reported in a short paragraph for in-class interviews. For longer projects, interview results and analyses may be reported individually in journal entries or by groups in the form of progress reports, memos, and minutes of meetings. Short in-class interviews foster the development of a learning community, facilitate class discussion, and connect oral language use to written language use.