In transcribing Carlos's interview, I realize from a conversation I had with Dr. Bryan this past Friday, that he may be telling me some things about his learning style, his personality, and his learning mood (lines 333-341).
I go on to encourage him to journal and write about his feelings and experiences with learning English (autographia). I am coming from the belief that his self esteem and confidence in his learning ability need to be worked on. Today, I heard from Hector on this very topic of writing about what one is learning. He writes: "A good idea is to have a diary where you record your daily experiences. [write and] read [it] aloud." This is autograpia and autologia (Lomb).
As Dr. Bryan said, it would have been good to give each learner a learning style inventory or perhaps a personality inventory (See Janine, lines 206-115) in order to assess the learners first.
However, Carlos says that for him, he gets quiet in class when he thinks or perceives that he is not the most proficient in the room (line 341). He goes on from there and talks about his desire to check out audiobooks and books so he can read and listen to the book at the same time. I realize that he is expressing a need to expand his repetoire of learning activities. That is, he desires to use some informal, self-directed auditory means of learning to support his overall language learning goal. Another way of saying this is that listening to audiobooks is an informal learning strategy.
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