Third Interview Questions

1. What is the most important factor in second language acquisition?
2. Why is it that the optimal age to start learning a language is round 7?
3. What are two other factors that re important to L2 acquisition?
4. How are all these factors related to each other?
5. How can your L1 help your L2 acquisition?
6. How would you define successful L2 acquisition?
7. Which if any computer language program is the best for L2 acquisition?
8. How can motivation come into play and help one acquire a L2?
9. How do you think polyglots are able to maintain their language abilities?
10. Do you believe intelligence is a key factor in L2 acquisition?

Mentorship 10 hours check

1.   Where are you doing your mentorship?
I am doing my mentorship up on Cal-Poly's campus.
2.   Who is your contact?
My contact is Dr. Russikoff a professor of English up at Cal-Poly.
3.   How many total hours have you done 
I have done roughly ten hours of mentorship during the first semester of this year.  
4.   Summarize the 10 hours of service you did.
In these ten hours I have basically help grade papers of ESL students that my mentor was teaching at the time. I have also done various projects in her class and come to her office hours if I have had any questions or just to discuss the topics that I learned in class.

Blog 10: Senior Project: The Holiday

Grandparents house Tian-Liao Taiwan

1.  It is important to consistently work on your senior project, whether it is break or we are in school.  What did you over the break with your senior project?
Over break I was unable to do mentor ship because I traveled to Japan and Taiwan;however, I continued to work on my senior project on the airplane and whenever I had time. I mostly "had time" on the airplane because the flight over to japan was ten hours. I brought the book I have been using for my RC called Discovering Speech, Words, and Mind. I read three chapters in this book while I was on the airplane. I will go back and do cornell notes and reread the chapters when we have RCs. 

2.  What was the most important thing you learned from what you did an why?  What was the source of what you learned?
I think that the most important thing I learned from my readings was something called the Pimsleur approach to learning a second language. The text briefly mentioned the method, but I was intrigued so I went online and researched what/who Pimsleur was. I think that this method is important because it may become one of my first answers for my EQ. Like I said before the source of this knowledge was first the book which sparked my interest and then the internet for further research.

3.  If you were going to do a 10 question interview on questions related to answers of your EQ, who would you talk to and why?
I think I would either talk to my mentor again or another Professor in the English department up at Cal-Poly that has majored in linguistics. I would interview one of them because I would like to conduct my next interview about the Pimsleur method of second language acquisition and they would be the most qualified to answer my questions.