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Language History Questionnaire

This questionnaire is designed to give us a better understanding of your language experience.

We ask that you be as accurate and thorough as possible when answering the following questions and thank you for your participation.

 

     Sex:               Age (in years)                 Handedness :        Native country

                               Years spent in the U.S.                            Years spent in U.S. schools

1.) What is your first language (i.e., language first spoken)?  If more than one, please briefly describe the situations in which each language was used.

        

2.) Which language (if any) do you consider your second language?

          

3.) If you have ever lived in or visited a country where languages other than your native language are spoken, please indicate below the name of the country (countries), the duration of your stay in number of months, and which languages you used while you were in the country (please indicate if you were spoken to in a language other than your first language, even if you never actually spoke that language).

Country visited

 # Months there

Language(s) used

4.) List below, from most fluent to least fluent, all of the languages to which you have been exposed. Also specify the age in years at which you began to learn the language and the context in which you learned it.  For example, "English, birth, home".  Include all languages to which you have been exposed, although you may never have had formal training in them and may not be able to read, speak or write them. Please remember to list your native language(s)

Language

Age in years

Learning situation

5.) How many years have you studied your second language?  Please indicate the setting(s) in which you have had experience with the language (i.e., classroom, with friends, foreign country...)

        Number of years:

        Setting(s)            

6)  Are you currently enrolled in any language courses other than French On Line? (Any course either instructed in a foreign language or designed to teach a foreign language). If so, please list the course number(s) below, along with the title of the course.

Department

Course #

Title of Course

7.) What languages other than your first language do you speak fluently?

8.) What languages other than your first language do you read fluently?

9.) What languages other than your first language do you write fluently?

10.) What languages other than your first language do you understand when they're spoken?

** For the next eight questions, please check below the number of your response.**

11.) Please rate your English reading proficiency on a ten-point scale

Not literate                 Very literate
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

12.) Please rate your French reading proficiency on a ten-point scale

Not literate                 Very literate
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

13.) Please rate your English writing proficiency on a ten-point scale

Not literate                 Very literate
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

14.) Please rate your French writing proficiency on a ten-point scale

Not literate                 Very literate
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

15.) Please rate your English conversational fluency on a ten-point scale

Not fluent                 Very fluent
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

16.) Please rate your French conversational fluency on a ten-point scale

Not fluent                 Very fluent
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

17.) Please rate your English speech comprehension ability on a ten-point scale

Unable to understand conversation                 Perfectly able to understand conversation
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

18.) Please rate your French speech comprehension ability on a ten-point scale

Unable to understand conversation                 Perfectly able to understand conversation
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

 

19.) How would you rate your foreign language learning skills? Please choose your response.

20.) When learning a new language, which of the following do you find the easiest to learn?

   Please rank the following from 1 to 4 (1=easiest; 4=hardest).

  Easiest     Hardest
  1 2 3 4

Pronunciation

Grammar

Vocabulary

Sayings / Expressions

 

 21.) Is there anything else about your language background that you would like to comment on? Please feel free to make comments about things that were not covered in this questionnaire.

            

 

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