Blog 11: Holiday Research Update

1. It is important to consistently work on your senior project, whether it is break or we are in school. What did you do over the break with your senior project?

• I used the tips and tricks of language-learning my mentor has taught me in order to acquire Japanese. I have also implied methods learned from my ENG 323 class to teach my baby cousin how to speak.

2. What was the most important thing you learned from what you did, and why? What was the source of what you learned?

• Enjoyable input is something that really effects language learning because if you're learning a language, you need to surround yourself with it. Books, magazines, and songs are ways you can surround yourself with the target language, but it's more beneficial if you are looking at something you enjoy. I saw the effects of enjoyable input within myself.

3. If you were going to do a 10 question interview on questions related to answers for your EQ, who would you talk to and why?

• My mentor, obviously, because she is the one who has taught me different aspects about child language acquisition in the first place.