Rachel Viné-Krupa summarises the key elements of an initial advice interview.
During the first interview, what I do is invite the learner to express their needs, to express what their project is with the language and from there to transform their needs into objectives, to help them prioritise their objectives because sometimes a learner arrives with a need like I want to speak English and then we’re going to help them define more precisely what they mean by I want to speak English. Sometimes speaking English turns out to mean writing English.
The first and subsequent interviews