这些活动是从下列类型的活动中选出来的:历史讲座、科学实验、科学讲座、短篇故事以及听写。每个听力材料都显然包括几个停顿,在停顿时,采访者停止录音,要求学生们尽可能把听到的东西同他们的思想联系起来。学生们可以用西班牙语或英语出声思考;大多数学生选择用西班牙语出声思考,偶然用英语加以评论。采访者通常用西班牙语提出问题。在学生们似乎不能确定如何继续进行时,就提出一些试探性问题,例如: These activities are selected from the following types of activities: history lectures, science experiments, science lectures, short stories and dictation. Every listening material apparently includes a few pauses, and when it pauses, the interviewer stops recording and asks the student to relate what he hears to their thoughts as much as possible. Students can think aloud in Spanish or English; most students choose to speak out in Spanish and occasionally comment in English. Interviewers usually ask questions in Spanish. When students seem unable to determine how to proceed, they ask some tentative questions, such as: