Applied Linguistics and language teacher education
Appendix
Questionnaire
This questionnaire is part of research into Applied Linguistics. Your contribution is very important for our research. Please read the instructions carefully and answer the questions below as truthfully as possible. Thank you.
Name: _____________________________________________________
1) Number, in order of importance (1-least important – 4-most important), what you believe the focus of your lessons should mostly be on:
a) Pronunciation ( )
b) Structures ( )
c) Vocabulary and meaning ( )
d) Social practices and politeness ( )
2) Which, do you believe, are the areas where learners need the most emphasis in instruction? Please tick.
a) Pronunciation ( )
b) Structures ( )
c) Vocabulary and meaning ( )
d) Social practices and politeness ( )
3) Which are for you the areas where learners can acquire language naturally, without instruction? Please tick one or more boxes (do not tick any boxes if you believe instruction is always needed).
a) Pronunciation ( )
b) Structures ( )
c) Vocabulary and meaning ( )
d) Social practices and politeness ( )
4) Do you frequently correct your learners’ production?
5) Number the boxes below according to the priority you would give to correcting the following learners’ errors in bold type (1-top priority – 4-no priority).
a) A learner says ‘I must to come to every class to learn English fast’ ( )
b) A learner says ‘She is simply /sImplaI/ in love with her neighbour’ ( )
c) A learner says ‘If I needed a day off, I would say to my boss “Give me a day off, OK?’” ( )
d) A learner says ‘I have never cooked a cake’ ( )
6) Number the areas below according to how often (1-never; 2-not very often; 3-quite often; 4-very often) you believe you correct your learners’ production in each of the areas below.
a) Pronunciation ( )
b) Structures ( )
c) Vocabulary and meaning ( )
d) Social practices and politeness ( )
7) Consider question 6 again. Justify your procedure where you answered never and not very often.
8) Do learners, in your opinion, welcome correction in all of the areas above (i.e. Pronunciation; Structures; Vocabulary and meaning; Social practices and politeness)?
Yes. ( )
No.( )
9) Do learners react more favourably to correction in one area than another (Pronunciation; Structures; Vocabulary and meaning; Social practices and politeness)? If so, why, do you think, there is such preference?
10) Which area (Pronunciation; Structures; Vocabulary and meaning; Social practices and politeness) do you, as a teacher, feel most confident to correct your learners’ production? Why?
11) Would you say that your style of teaching (your choice of what is most important to teach and how that is to be taught) reflects mostly the teacher training you received or how you learnt English (or another L2) yourself? Can you think of other possible influences on the way you teach?
12) Whenever instruction is beneficial, which are the most effective ways to provide it? Please number the boxes below according to the degree of effectiveness of each procedure (1-most effective – 4-least effective) and justify your choices in the lines that follow.
a) By means of explicit teaching ( )
b) By means of correction ( )
c) By means of task-based instruction ( )
d) By means of peer correction ( )
Thank you for answering this questionnaire.
