Extra Credit Interview
For those of you who would like to do an interview of a native
speaker for extra credit and as one of your sources for the culture project,
the following are the basic guidelines:
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The interview must be tape-recorded. It should be a minimum
of 15 minutes long, and you should speak for about 25% of that time.
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You must design questions that will prompt your interviewee
to use at least six of the seven puntos clave. The descripción
and narración en el pasado parts will probably happen almost automatically,
but you may have to do some extra thinking and preparation to get your
subject to give you recommendations or to speak hypothetically. Talk to
me before you do the interview if you're not sure about how to do this;
there are some fairly "standard" questions that can be adapted to almost
any topic.
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Your interviewee should be someone who has reason to know
about the topic-- someone who has lived in the places you're asking about
or has at least studied them in depth. Your asking someone who's
from Mexico to talk about las Fallas de Valencia would be like an ESL student
asking you to talk about Boxing Day traditions in Glasgow.
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You should pick the question and answer that you think were
most interesting and useful, and transcribe that response. (If it
was an extremely long response, transcribe the best 30 seconds of it.)The
transcription doesn't have to be perfect, but it should prove that you
understood most of what you heard. Alternately, if there was a moment
when you and your subject had a miscommunication, you can transcribe that
part and try to figure out what it was that caused the problem.