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Group Members

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Data Collection  

Vincent’s books 

Websites about Vincent 

Face-to-face interview 

Questionnaires 

Data Analysis  

Attitude 

Visual and auditory 

Personali ty, motivation 

Learner preferences 

 Learner’s belief  

Methods 

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

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

• In Cheng-gong senior high- Accumulatingspeech experiences & having the chance toteach in class

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• In Zheng-zhi university- 

Because of the high score in English in Joint

Entrance University Examination, he wasadmitted in the Japanese Department and then

transferred to the English Department.

• In Fu-ren graduate school- Top 1 of 

the list

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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.

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He turned the negative motivation into

positive motivation in English learning.

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Learning languages is to learn anattitude.

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

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• Visual

- R eading “Time Express”, “Time for Students”,

“EZ Talk”, and “The Economist.” 

- Jotting down whatever he reads in English 

• Auditory

- Watching films and movies

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• 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.

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Imitation- imitating is the basic step of learning

English.

Practice- creating the opportunity to use Englishinstead of waiting for the opportunity.

Feedback - each error is another time to improve

English.

Habit formation- English is everywhere in the

daily life.

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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 tohave a conversation. Through conversations he tries

to learn everything he wants.

---zone of proximal development (ZPD) 

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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.

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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.

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Interactional modification makes input

comprehensible

Comprehensible input promotes acquisition

Interactional modification promotesacquisition

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Input hypothesis

Monitor hypothesis

Affective filter hypothesis

Attention-processing (noticing) model

Krashen’s

Hypothesis

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He thinks that reading is very important in

language learning process. Reading canhelp to increase learners’ knowledge. 

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It is a myth that you can learn English

well just by listening to radio.

To improve your own ability is important.

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Thank you for your attention.