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Anyone willing to contribute? :)
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gyllene_tjej said on September 10, 2005 11:12:
Hello guys!
As some of you here know, I’m a young (lol) English teacher. I’m currently working on my diploma work which investigates the role of personality factors and anxiety states in second language learning.
To explore the issue in question I’ve designed a neat questionnaire and I hope for enthusiastic response from you guys. My ambitious aim is to find a sample of like 100 respondents - in order for the findings to be representative.
To cut the long story short: I NEED YOUR HELP. Here are some requirements you have to meet:
1. Your mother tongue is NOT English
2. You learn (or learned in the past) English as a Second Language in a classroom environment (a private or public school)
To convince you even more, I’ll tell you that there are no open-ended questions, just 30 questions/statements of multiple choice type, so the whole project will not be time-consuming for you. Needless to say, you will remain anonymous and the information I will gather will only be used for the purpose of my thesis.
So, everyone interested email me at [email protected] or leave your mail here, and I will send you the questionnaire.
Thanks in advance for your cooperation :)
gyllene_tjej said on September 10, 2005 14:09:
cool :) I emailed you all. Come on folks, keep helping me, and rox on!
Jud (moderator) said on September 10, 2005 15:47:
you can send it to the email address in my profile!
Starrox said on September 10, 2005 16:46:
I’m interested as well, feel free to send it to the email address in my profile!
roxgirl_germany said on September 10, 2005 18:44:
I have taken the liberty to post the questionnaire in www.roxetteforum.com since several people seem to be interested in helping.
Until when do you need it back?
AURYTE said on September 10, 2005 19:15:
You can send the questionnaire to me. The e-mail is in my profile :)
Santi said on September 10, 2005 22:24:
Send me to the e-mail addres in my profile, I’ll be glad to help.
gyllene_tjej said on September 11, 2005 00:06:
You guys are fantastic :) Thank you very much!
@roxgirl: that was nice of you - I’d like to have the population sample ready by next weekend, so I truly hope more of Roxers will contribute. After all, there are so many of us visiting TDR daily, there seems not to be a problem to obtain information from such a gathering :D. Naturally, it’s not astrict deadline, but the sooner I’m done, the better of course.
Now, that’s a thought - why not investigate further what impact Roxette’s music has on ESL learning...with so many of us having one great love in common :) :) Or what do you say? ;)
@ally: What languages have you learned at school? If you want to take part in my survey, it’s possible - as long as you answer the questions through your experience with learning another language than English. :) And actually, my respondents will be informed about the results. Surely, it won’t happen overnight, as I’ve barely started gathering data... Later the whole statistical approach is bound to kill me (no head for numbers here), but nevertheless I’m enthusiastic about the project. Hopefully, my supervisor will not dampen my high spirits :D
So, I’ll keep you all informed, and you guys feed me with your answers :)
purplemedusa said on September 11, 2005 05:40:
gyllene_tjej hope that you got my answers! It was so much fun to fill out - some odd questions here & there, actually! Can’t wait to get the results! Tell me will we each get our individual results?
roxgirl_germany said on September 11, 2005 06:45:
Okay, next weekend it is. :)
And yes, the impact of Rox music would definitely be worth to investigate!!! I learned a lot of vocabulary with the lyrics (esp. Joyride) - and was a bit disappointed that there were “only” about 10 new words for me on HAND... ;)
I learned Swedish in the first place to be able to translate the Swedish lyrics... :-D
gyllene_tjej said on September 11, 2005 11:53:
yes purple, everything is just fine, cool you enjoyed it :) Sent the follow-up to those of you who already returned the questionnaires to me. :)
I’m not sure how I will do it yet - it’s a long way to go till I have the project analysed and the conclusions drawn, but my original idea is either to send all of you who care the results and implications, or upload the thesis somewhere - hoping that noone is going to steal my work, haha :)
The only thing that makes me stressed is to actually gather as many respondents as I can in a short period of time, because the more I get the clearer the tendencies and so... I do realize that not evereyone is particularly keen on filling in surveys and taking tests, but I’m ambitous enough not to fake the results. I want to analyse TRUE FACTS. :)
BUT, we’ll make it together! Will mention you in acknowledgements, haha :) It surely is a nice incentive? :D
little-miss-sorrow said on September 11, 2005 13:09:
if you still need somebody feel free to email me
AURYTE said on September 12, 2005 07:20:
I’ve just sent it back to you :) And all the best with your work :)
gyllene_tjej said on September 12, 2005 09:17:
Thank you Auryte! :) I’ll do the best I can, in the worst case I’ll narrow the sample to a smaller number. But I believe many more Roxers will show their interest :) Rox on!
tcooh said on September 12, 2005 11:38:
The test was fun, everyone will learn something about themselves doing this ;)
harriej said on September 12, 2005 15:15:
you can send it to me as well (see my profile for the mail-address)
lonely_girl said on September 12, 2005 17:25:
Allright I’ll fill in the questionaire too...
Good luck to you mouse!
TinyBubbles said on September 10, 2005 12:20:
Okies have emailed you. But i’m afraid i wont be able to do it till monday if that is ok.