A Success Foreign Language Learner—Stephanie Weng

Erica Cheng 鄭雅苓 9431326

Lisa Liu 劉書宇 9431332

Janice Shiao 蕭涵茹 9431346

Annie Chen 陳慧紋 9431358

Emma Chen 陳怡伶 9431374

Introduction

Why

Stephanie is

Who is Stephanie?!

Analysis

Learner Characteristic

• Age of Acquisition – Stephanie started to learn English at the age of

11.

• Personality – Self-confident– Risk-taking– Extroverted

• Intelligence – Musical/Rhythmic Intelligence

• Motivation – Elementary School---Intrinsic/Integrative– Junior High School---Extrinsic/Integrative– Wenzao College---Intrinsic/Instrumental– Present---Intrinsic/Instrumental

Learning Styles

• Perceptual learning style– Tactile/Kinesthetic

• Cognitive learning style– Active/Sensing/Visual/Sequential

Learning Condition

• Cram school – Playing games

• Junior high school– Being asked to memorize the vocabulary, grammar rule,

phrasal verbs, etc. – Took exams everyday – Still went to cram school– Her cram school teacher was from Malaysia and had studied

in U.K.– Explained the English rules

• Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages– Whole English environment– A lot of papers, presentations– Role-plays– Group works

• Wenzao two-year college– Leader of U45– Attend international student elite program - the head of

secretariat – Organize international students leaders symposium– Work in European parliament visiting

Learning Goals

• Junior High School– CALP

• Wenzao College– BICS

• Present– CALP/BICS

Discussion

Behaviorism

Behaviorism is a psychological theory

that all learning, whether verbal or non-

verbal, takes place through the

establishment of habits. 

When learners imitate and repeat the

language they heard in their surrounding

environment and are positively reinforced

by doing so, habit formation occurs.

• Imitation– She listened and imitated to the

sounds of English songs and movies.

• Practice– She kept practicing by way of not only

speaking but listening, reading, and writing the vocabulary repeatedly to memorize it.

• Reinforcement– Joining an English chatting room where

she can be given good or bad feedback from friends to improve English learning.

• Habit formation– Seizing any chance and forming a habit

to learn English constantly from role playing, group-work doing or research papers writing.

• CAH (contrastive analysis hypothesis):

– Contrast the system of the first language with

the system of the second language.

• Good– Chinese was so difficult that as long as we learned

English, we would discover English was easier to learn comparing with Chinese.

Bad– Chinese had difficult “shape” of characters whic

h pronounced differently and respectively. The system of Chinese would heedlessly make some pronunciation mistake like we called “Chinglish”.

FL had Influenced SL

Good & Bad Effects

Innatism

Krashen’s “Monitor Model”

• Acquisition ― Learning Hypothesis

• The Monitor Hypothesis

• The Affective Filter hypothesis

Information Processing

• Attention― Processing (Noticing)

• Restructuring ― Multiple Intelligences

Interactionism

• Social Function

• ZPD

• Modified Input

Conclusion