IELTS Research Reports

Guoxing Yu, Pauline Rea-Dickins and Richard KielyAPPENDIX 7: INTERVIEW QUESTIONS1 Briefing the purpose of the interview: to better understand your thinking process whendoing IELTS AWT1 tasks.2 Asking the students to talk about their experience of doing the AWT1 tasks, in particular,what is their general impression of the tasks, which task(s) do they find more challengingand why?3 In what ways, do you think your AWT1 writing process may be affected by differentgraphs/prompts? Did you work differently for different graphs?4 In what ways, do you think your AWT1 writing process may be affected by yourfamiliarity and comprehension of graphs?5 In what ways, do you think your AWT1 writing process may be affected by yourwriting ability?6 In what ways, do you think your AWT1 writing process was changed due to the grouptraining we had the other day? Did you do the tasks differently before and after the grouptraining? What do you want/think the test preparation/training for AWT1 tasks shouldlook like?7 Any other commentsNotes:■■■■■■■■All participants to be interviewed.The recorded think-aloud protocols may be revisited if necessary at the interviews.The interviews are to be recorded.An interview will last around 45-60 minutes.434 www.ielts.org