There are production data from the following text types:
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free conversation (session names like: P-D??K?-???)
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narratives: retellings of the content of silent films, and personal
narratives (session names like: P-D??E?-???)
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opinions and attitudes: discussion of learners' attitudes towards
topics of general interest (like common law marriage) (session names like: P-D??M?-???)
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instruction: the learner has to instruct a native speaker how to
act out some scene, or construct some object (session names like: P-D??I?-???)
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problem solving: the learner has to imagine a difficult situation
(e.g. being in a foreign country and loosing money and documents) and to
find and discuss a solution (session names like: P-D??P?-???)
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description: picture descriptions and a description of the distribution
of furniture in a flat (session names like: P-D??D?-???)