This study explores Thai English as a foreign language students’ reflections on their learning outcomes from doing a real world interview task. From a sociocultural perspective, we adopted adventurous learning as an alternative pedagogical approach to encourage students to learn from social and educational experience in real world situations. Data were collected from an audio-recorded stimulated recall reflection and students’ written reflections on what they believed they had learnt from doing the real world task. Quantitatively, a corpus-based approach was used to generate keywords from students’ spoken and written reflections. Qualitatively, using the keyword list together with the identified learning outcomes in task-based learning literature, themes of students’ perceived learning outcomes were explored from students’ spoken reflections. Findings show that students learnt from conducting a real world interview task with professionals as a real audience outside the classroom to learn and use language skills such as speaking and listening, and wording of questions, to acquire life skills such as communication strategies, problem-solving and decision-making skills and team spirit, as well as to gain knowledge of the real world such as people, places, cultures and themselves. Limitations and implications are discussed. © Centre for Language Studies National University of Singapore.
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