ELABORATIONLearning FrenchHunter McCall

EDPS 4577:00

Daniel Abbott

story Last spring, I had proposed to my French fiancé.

After this, I spent two significant amounts of time in France, all of last summer and I had “permanently” moved there in October, plus a few 10-day trips to Paris. Previous to being there, I had only a single lesson of Rosetta stone and snippets of vocabulary learned from only a few online classes. Since I would soon be married (and indirectly a French citizen), I knew that learning French would be a crucial step to my full citizenship. When the time came for me to “move” there, learning French became the most important priority before moving on in any other way for my new life.

Modeling Modeling-process by which an observer

observes an expert or peer performing a task and then performs the task themself

Motivation-Inner state that energizes, directs, and sustains behavior

Expert/peer

Modeling Numerous models Expert Peer

Motivation My motivation was survival Without learning French, I would not be

able to work, attend school, or even become a French citizen

How was my motivation to learn affected by my situation?

How did models increase my learning? Was my fiancé a peer or expert model?

Self-efficacy Self-efficacy-belief that one is capable of

executing certain behaviors or reaching certain goals

Initiation Resilience-belief that on can perform a task

successfully even after experiencing setbacks

Self-regulation-process of setting goals for oneself and engaging in behaviors and cognitive processes that lead to goal attainment

Self-efficacy Complete inability to learn without it Have high self-efficacy for language

learning (Spanish, French, Japanese) Intrinsic and Extrinsic

Initiation and Resilience Without belief I COULD, I wouldn’t start

studying Difficult language to learn, but more than

enough motivation to keep going

Self-regulation All on me

How did relying on only myself affect my ability?

How was my self-efficacy affected by using only self-teaching materials and having a “living dictionary” instead of proper instruction?

Memory Meaningful learning-cognitive process in

which learners relate new information to things they already know

Encoding-Changing the format of new information as it is being stored in memory

Long-term memory-Component of memory that holds knowledge and skills for a relatively long time

Meaningful Learning All meaningful learning-I needed it If it wasn’t meaningful, I would forget it

Encoding Needed proper encoding Had to use various methods to ensure

Long-term Memory About 60% of the lessons never made it

past working memory Repeat 7 times

What was the best way to enforce the meaningful learning, encoding, and long-term memory storage?

Did I learn it better by full immersion or would proper instruction have been a better tool?

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