Learners: Activity 1


Who are the learners?

Please read the information about learner characteristics before working through these activities.

Look at each learner’s entire interview. Answer questions on the individual personalities and backgrounds of the two learners.

  1. How long they have been learning Japanese, and what kind of exposure to Japanese they have had: Was it communication-oriented or accuracy-oriented?
  2. Whether they began learning Japanese before the end of the critical period
  3. Educational and literacy level; present and past purposes for learning Japanese
  4. Whether their present orientation is to either communication or accuracy
  5. Personality
  6. Motivation
  7. Learning styles and strategies
  8. Other possibly relevant traits


Sebastian Interview


Transcript (PDF)

Maximus Interview

Transcript (PDF)

Please type your answers to the questions in the box below.

When you have finished typing your answer, click to compare your response with the Learner Language staff response.

 

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