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Language History
Questionnaire
This questionnaire is designed
to give us a better understanding of your eperience learning a second language.
We ask that you be as accurate and thorough as possible when answering the
following questions and thank you for your participation in this study.
If at any time, you need more
space to write, please feel free to use the extra space available in section 26,
entitled Additional Informmation, of this document. Please put the question
number beside your responses.
Sex:
Age (in years)
Handedness :
Native country
Years spent in the U.S.
Years spent in U.S. schools
1.) Do you have any known
visual or hearing problems (corrected or uncorrected))?
2.) 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.
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).
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)
5.) What languages were spoken
in your home while you were a child and by whom?)?
6.) 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)
7) 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.
8.) What languages other than your first language do you speak fluently?
9.) What languages other than your first language do you read fluently?
10.) What languages other than your first language do you write fluently?
11.) What languages other than your first language do you understand when they're spoken?
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the next eight questions, please check below the number of your
response.**
12.) Please list the
language(s) the following people speak.
Mother:
Father:
Closest Friend:
13.) Please rate your first language reading
proficiency on a ten-point scale
14.) Please rate your second language reading
proficiency on a ten-point scale
15.) Please rate your first language writing
proficiency on a ten-point scale
16.) Please rate your second language writing
proficiency on a ten-point scale
17.) Please rate your first language conversational
fluency on a ten-point scale
18.) Please rate your second language conversational
fluency on a ten-point scale
19.) Please rate your first language speech
comprehension ability on a ten-point scale
20.) Please rate your French speech comprehension
ability on a ten-point scale
21.) How would you rate your foreign language learning
skills? Please choose your response.
22.) 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).
23.) Have you ever been immersed in your second language
culture(please select)?
24.) Please compare learning a second language in an
immersion environment with one learning in a classroom environment (Which one is
easier? In which did you learn more? ...) Please comment about the difference
between your various learning experiences.
25.) Is there anything else about your language
background that you would like to comment on? Please feel free to make comments
about things which were not covered on this questionnaire.
26.)Additional Information.
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