SLA RESEARCH ON SELF-DIRECTION: THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ISSUES

26K. And, then... And now the thing is to look for examples and it is not the problem of
focusing in the grammar, the structure.

27A. That is solved, That is/

28K. Now, to look for examples and to reinforce, to begin to master the structure. But
what is causing me problems is the use.

29A. the use

30K. Yes, That's is causing a lot of problems. I thought about a game, but I said
something. No, why not, but why not. At the end, there was something I didn't think,
something that was not going to work, that was not going/

31A.In the game with phrasal verbs?

32K. Yes?

33A. Ah, no, but that was a different thing, I mean, to Ieam the phrasal verbs? But what
about the third conditional?

34K. I don't know , I haven't found the way, yet. That's is why I arrived earlier...

35 A. And the problem is that you haven't found anything because you still don't know
how to do it?

36K. No. I know how to do it. What I don't know, I mean, I am used to...first find
something in the books. Then I go to have my interchange session. I practise with her.
That is to say, we together create a situation.

37A. OK How would you create a situation. Let's think that right now your "interchange"
is here. How would you create a situation with her in order to use the third conditional.
38K. Well, for instance, more....usually she would tell me things about her life, all right?
And, if I had doubts about the if clause, the third conditional ...that is, I explained to her
what I had found in books and she would talk about her life creating a situation.

39A. Ah, Ok

40K. Yes

41 A. She gave you examples.

42K. But then I talked with her and according to the conversation she talked and I talked.
And that way, the two of us built something, like solving a puzzle. A puzzle with the
pieces of the situation.

43A. Well, let's think that....Well, first of all, tell me, what do you use the third
conditional for? Let's start with that.

44K. For a hypothesis

45A. Mhm

46K. For a hypothesis that you have and ....yes, like/

47A. Could you give me an example?

48K. IfI...

49A. But from here (pointing her notes) it is not necessary that you know it by heart.

50K. But that is the point! I want to see if I understood......

51 A. Do you want to write it...or not? (giving her a piece of paper)

52K. (writing) IfIhad......IfIhad..... drive slow.....I wouldn't I wouldn't have an

accident.... ehh...It is not drive

53A. (laughter)