Advisor 6, Learner 12: Interview 1, Extract 1 (C6_A12_1_1)

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C6: to you want to communicate
A12: to be able to communicate speak read understand +
C6: that’s a huge programme, isn’t it? you’re going to have to make choices
A12: well, that’s the whole point of a language, isn’t it?
C6: absolutely yes, but we can then it’s going to be a bit of my job to help you make decisions and because, as I say, it’s vast and you have to get organised and so we’re going to suggest that, to start with, what I’m going to do is that I’m going to help you make decisions. what I’m going to do is I’m going to show you an um a blog that we’ve created um and with colleagues from the university well it’s mainly them that have done it I admit that um I haven’t taken the time to do it but um you’ll see that we’ll be able to work with it well you’ll be able to work with it and is- do you have time do you have +++?
A12: well, I have Tuesday to Tuesday evening because I leave at three o’clock, so I’m home around five on Friday afternoon and at the weekend +++.
C6: so there- there’s time
A12: yeah
C6: eh and then there’s also the possibility here no
A12: yeah, there’s the e-lorraine room here, but I don’t always have the holes to get there.
C6: I get the impression that for you this is more of a home activity, isn’t it?
A12: well, I don’t have much time here
C6: oh well
A12: I arrive in the morning and then I have the train to come back, so
C6: because you don’t live here in Nancy
A12: no
C6: you live far away
A12: near Metz
C6: ah right, and you’re a half-boarder
A12: yes
C6: and you make the journey every day ah you’re going to be able to put things in your ears notice because on the train there’s a way of practising speaking that’s one thing you t- t- you’ve got an mp3 player or something like that I imagine
A12: yeah or on the phone otherwise it’s not a problem
C6: well, the phone too, yes of course we’ll look at the blog I was telling you about if you want to

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Corpus themes: What do you do when a learner doesn't seem to have any particular needs or objectives (they just want to learn to speak the language in question)? -