Group Members

Data Collection

Vincent’s books

Websites about Vincent

Face-to-face interview

Questionnaires  

Data Analysis

Attitude

Visual and auditory

Personality, motivation

Learner preferences

Learner’s belief

Methods

• In Zheng-zhi elementary- starting to learn English in a small tutor class

• In Wan-fang junior high- having the first speech experience but failed it

• In Cheng-gong senior high- Accumulating speech experiences & having the chance to teach in class 

 

• In Zheng-zhi university-

Because of the high score in English in Joint Entrance University Examination, he was admitted in the Japanese Department and then transferred to the English Department.

• In Fu-ren graduate school- Top 1 of the list

Introversion & Extroversion - He changed himself from introversion to

extroversion step by step.

Risk-taking - Making mistake was humiliating for him.

Self-esteem - He has indomitable spirit to face the difficulty.

Anxiety - He feels nervous in some situations.

He turned the negative motivation into positive motivation in English learning.

Learning languages is to learn an attitude.

Remind yourself that you are in a learning mode, and nothing is impossible. You need to harbor this kind of attitude.

• Visual

- Reading “Time Express”, “Time for Students”, “EZ Talk”, and “The Economist.”

- Jotting down whatever he reads in English

• Auditory

- Watching films and movies

• Field-dependence -Can you see “fly?” Vincent saw two faces were talking.

• Reflective -Speaking is the most difficult and stressful part

among listening, speaking, reading and writing.

• Left or right brain dominance -He is not particular dominant on left or right

brain.

Imitation- imitating is the basic step of learning English.

Practice- creating the opportunity to use English instead of waiting for the opportunity.

Feedback- each error is another time to improve English.

Habit formation- English is everywhere in the daily life.

Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory

1. Language development takes place in the social interactions between individuals. SLA takes place through conversational activities.

2.Interaction- He always grabs the chance to talk with foreigners and he always tries to find a foreigner to have a conversation. Through conversations he tries to learn everything he wants.

---zone of proximal development (ZPD)

Research shows that native speakers consistently modify their speeches in sustained conversation with non-native speakers.

Modified interaction involves linguistic simplifications and conversational modifications- as a necessary mechanism for the L2 acquisition.

An example- He ate dinner with an English,

during the conversation he made a mistake

put …down to ( 將．．．歸咎於．．．上 )

He said put ….down on, then the English native speaker corrected him immediately.

Interactional modification makes input comprehensible

Comprehensible input promotes acquisition

Interactional modification promotes acquisition

Input hypothesis

Monitor hypothesis

Affective filter hypothesis

Attention-processing (noticing) model

Krashen’s Hypothesis

He thinks that reading is very important in language learning process. Reading can help to increase learners’ knowledge.

It is a myth that you can learn English well just by listening to radio.

To improve your own ability is important.

Thank you for your attention.