Foreign Language Studying Preference Survey

1. List language learned excluding native language

2. Fluency at reading/speaking/writing/listening
3. Comfortability at using language as a medium of communication
4. Difficulty in learning
 Remembering new vocabulary (spelling)
 Sentence structure (grammar)
 Conjugation
 Etc.
5. Preferred method of learning
 Repetitive memorization exercise
 Contextual recognition
 Conversation practice
 Visual Imaging
 Meaning association
 Etc.

Problems in different aspects of language

1. the phonological/orthographic area (sounds and sound-symbol relationships, letter

combinations)
 difficulty learning and remembering the sounds of the consonants and distinguishing
the different sounds of vowels.
 difficulty learning to pronounce, read, and spell words.
2. the syntactic area (grammar, how words connect in sentences)
 problems with subject-verb agreement and use of plurals, possessives, and parts of
speech in the native language
 use incomplete sentences and sometimes use incorrect verb tenses
 struggle to conjugate verbs (that is, selecting the correct ending for a verb related to
the subject of the sentence)
 difficulty matching the correct masculine or feminine pronoun with a noun or placing
the adjective in the proper order in a spoken or written sentence
3. the semantic area (meaning of words and word parts)
 difficulty comprehending the meaning of what was said when listening to others
speak/comprehending what they read
 may do well in the first semester or year of foreign language learning; sentence
structures are relatively simple and vocabulary concentrates on life-related topics
 advanced level courses, however, the amount and complexity of listening, speaking,
reading, and writing tasks increases