SLA RESEARCH ON SELF-DIRECTION: THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ISSUES



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
SAC USER

ENGLISH

CLASSES

I(T)

male

^27

MA student
Sociology

English

NO

2(Aj~

male

^40

Hydraulic
engineer

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
Electronics

English

6 months

YES

8 (K)**

female

26

BA student

TEFL (3rd year)

English

4 years

YES

9 (S)

male

35

Pub owner
and manager

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

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