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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 have they been learning Korean, and what kind of exposure of Korean have they had? Did they learn Korean in a more communication-oriented or accuracy-oriented way?
  2. Did they begin learning Korean before the end of the critical period?
  3. What is their educational level? Why are they learning Korean?
  4. Is their present orientation either toward communication or accuracy?
  5. What is their personality? (e.g. introverted or extroverted, shy or gregarious)
  6. What is their motivation for studying Korean?
  7. How do they seem to prefer to learn?
Sophia Interview 

Transcript (PDF)


Anna B 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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