Language Learner Profile

-Student name: Alexa Reichelt B.

-Teacher`s: Mrs Carolina Rojas
Mr Amardeep Dhillon
-Section: 2

Concepcin, November 8th

Methodology of teaching English as a foreign language

Interview Transcription
During the interview that has been subdivided into three sub-categories. First, I
made five questions which were focused on his personal information (name, age,
educational studies). Secondly, I applied five questions that center into the main
interest or past activities that the learner did (favourite singer, where he would like
to go during his next holidays). The main objective of these questions was to make
him speak in for at least 5 minutes so it could be more useful for analyzed his
performance when speaking; hence, this part was developed in English from both
sides the interviewee and the interviewer. Thirdly, I applied the background
questions to know more about the learner's current level. Finally, due to the
answers given by the student, I could find several issues related to grammar use
and lack of vocabulary.
A: Interviewer
B: Interviewee
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A: Do you like learning English?

B: Yes

A: Why?

B: Because ehhh always my.. I .. I wish to travel to the other countries

and the English is a very useful ehhh.. a useful to can live there for

example, to communicate or not don't get or don't get troubles in the

airport.. or how do you say estafado?

A: scam

B: to not be scam in the .. in other countries

A: What do you do on you free time?

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B: I usually I play videogames

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A: What did you for September 18th?

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B: With my family I went to a party a celebration of ..in.. Escuadrn

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Coronel and there were many shows for examples rodeos , cueca,

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very tipical chilean things..

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A: Where would you like to go during your holidays?

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B: I like to travel to Isla Santa Mara because there live my family..my

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ehh.. father family .. from my father`s family

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A: What do you think about horror movies?

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B: I don`t like them because when i was child my brother scared me,

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and I like a trauma.. because it was he scared me with Chucky and it

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was trauma .. I can see them

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A: Who is you favorite singer?

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B: I don't know if is a singer, is a band Sona rtica

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A: Why?

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B: Because I always like the ...folk metal, is like a .metal is mixed

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with for example very .Asian terms for example the songs are very

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mystical.

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Email address of the interviewee: Rurra@emingles.ucsc.cl

Learners Background

The person who was interviewed has 20 years old and lives in Coronel,
Concepcin. He loves metal music, video games and spend time with his friends.
During his learning process at primary school, he had English classes since 5th
grade with two hours per week. Moreover, he mentioned that he was not satisfied
with his primary English classes and he noticed that bad teaching strategies can
bring bad consequences within students motivation.
When he was on secondary school, he moved from his primary school to another
institution for High school. Furthermore, he mentioned that he liked English at High
school due to the diverse methodologies that the teacher brought into the
classroom. When he finished High School, he study law major for a semester in
Universidad de Concepcin. Currently, he is a first year student of English
pedagogy at UCSC (Universidad Catlica de la Santsima Concepcin).
During the interview, he explained that his best ability in the second language is
reading, however, he does not feel comfortable when speaking in English, he
decided to study this major not only because he wants to improve his level and feel
more comfortable while he have a conversation in L2, but also because he wants
to travel around the world.

Phonetic transcription of the interview

Selected extract lines: 4, 5 and 6

Because ehhh always my.. I .. I wish to travel to the other countries

and the English is a very useful ehh.. is a useful to can live there for

example to communicate or not don't get or don't get troubles for

Phonetics transcription lines: 4, 5, and 6

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nd i l s a vr jusfl ehh.. s a jusfl tu kn lv er f
ekzmpul tu: kmjunket r nt dunt get truabl/

Theoretical Framework
Every education in the world needs strategies to plan learning within the students
in the best way possible. In Chile, the teaching techniques have been improving
more and more to be able to achieve an adequate acquisition of a second
language in learners. According to Gu (2012) the effectiveness of these strategies
will depend on the student`attitude, motivation, learning`style, prior knowledge and
the learning atmosphere. Moreover, the lack of motivation in this country might
affect even more since it is not a bilingual country, and adding that cultural factors
affect the lack of adequate teacher`s strategies.

On one hand, the different methodologies used by the educators inside the
classroom had created an impact in Chilean society due to the improvement of
teacher's` vocation. On the other hand, it still not enough to create an adequate
plan to make the students acquire better the foreign language. For this reason,
teacher do not need to separate the language learning strategies with their
language learning styles, because it support learners to become a improved
apprentice (Gu, 2012). Furthermore, is very essential that professors teaches
different strategies within the class because the more teachers know about their
students' style interest, the more effectively they can orient their L2 instruction
(Oxford, 1990).
Analysis and assessment of their linguistic needs
In this research, some lack of linguistics skills that the student possess derive to a
necessity to discover different techniques to improve the learning strategies in his
L2. During the interview, the learner did not demonstrate any particular issues
within his pronunciation and fluency, however, the main concern that I could find,
was the lack of vocabulary that he present while answering the questions. The
learner could express a basic glossary in his linguistic expressions.
References

Gu, Y. (2012). Language Learning Strategies An EIL Perspective. In S. L.

Mckay, Principles and Practices for Teaching English as an International
Language (pp. 319-334). United States of America: Routledge.

Oxford, R. (1990). Language Learning Strategies: What every teacher

should know. Boston: Heinle & Heinle.