specifically related to the content of some sessions. I have also got other types of
documents such as answers to language tasks and tapes recorded with the product of
specific activities.
5.1.1 The participants
As I mentioned before, all the participants who took part in this project responded
to an invitation that was posted two weeks before the project started. The only
requirement was to be a SAC user. Because of this, all the participants shared an interest
and motivation to Ieam a foreign language and were, or had been, undergraduate
students. Nevertheless they were also very different in several respects.
|
SEX |
AGE |
OCCUPATION |
TARGET LANGUAGE |
TIME AS A |
ENGLISH CLASSES | |
|
I(T) |
male |
^27 |
MA student |
English |
— |
NO |
|
2(Aj~ |
male |
^40 |
Hydraulic |
English |
2 years |
-NO |
|
3(E) |
female |
24 |
BA student TEFL (finished) |
English |
4 years * |
PREVIOUS TERM |
|
4(F)** |
male |
22 |
BA student TEFL (3rd year) |
English |
3 years |
YES |
|
5 (Ga)** female |
20 |
BA student TEFL (2nd year) |
English |
3 years |
YES | |
|
6 (Gl) |
female |
20 |
BA student TEFL (2nd year) |
English |
3 years * |
YES |
|
7 (J) |
male |
24 |
BA student |
English |
6 months |
YES |
|
8 (K)** |
female |
26 |
BA student TEFL (3rd year) |
English |
4 years |
YES |
|
9 (S) |
male |
35 |
Pub owner |
English |
6 months |
TEN YEARS AGO |
Fig. 5.2. The participants
With regards to the table shown in Fig. 5.2, I have several comments to make.
First of all, it only contains the participants who finished the project. In fact, I started