Exit Interview

Title: Exit Interview
Label: Exit Interview
Due Date: Thursday, May 7th by 8AM

Please be advised. The senior team will not conduct any exit interview in which the student has not turned in a passing research count and completing this blog. In addition, you are expected to dress as you would for a job interview.

Content:

(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers? What is your best answer and why?

• "What is the most important factor of child second language acquisition?"
• Lowered Affective-Filter
• Comprehensible Input
• Patience
• Best answer: Lowered Affective Filter because when the affective-filter is up, no input will be acquired.

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

• When I took my English 323 class, my mentor explained the Affective Filter in great detail when she was teaching about Krashen's Monitor Model. She believes the Affective Filter is the most important hypothesis, and I agreed with her because I had some first hand experiences.

(3) What problems did you face? How did you resolve them?

• After my ENG 323 class ended, it was more difficult for me to come up with resources to look at to find my third answer. I couldn't talk to my mentor either since she was always busy with other students. To resolve this, I began talking to some ESL teachers from my elementary school, and they were able to give me some helpful stuff to look into.

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

• My mentor: She has taught me everything I needed to know in order to kickstart my project. If it weren't for her, I probably wouldn't have been as successful with my senior project as I am.
• Stephen Krashen: His books are the life of linguistics.