Feedback QuestionnaireMIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu21F.401 / 21F.451 / 21F.471 German IFall 2008 For information about citing these materials or our Terms of Use, visit: http://ocw.mit.edu/terms.Name: Feedback Questionnaire In answering these questions, please reflect on the progression of the entire semester and your language learning progress within it. LET ME EMPHASIZE THAT THE ANSWERS YOU PROVIDE HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IMPACT ON YOUR GRADE. I. Time Commitment: On average, how much time did you put into this class on a weekly basis? How does this compare with other classes. II. Assessing your German at this stage of your language acquisition 1. Please rate your current ability in German (0=no ability, 100=excellent ability) (highlight or underline) READING: 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 LISTENING: 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 SPEAKING: 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 WRITING: 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 2. Which areas of your competence in German in terms of the four categories of the previous question do you believe have improved most over the course? Why did one or the other improve, as contrasted with the others?3. In reverse, for those areas where you do not feel you made much progress, to what do you attribute that? II. The course syllabus and your learning of German Please comment on the course syllabus (in terms of amount of material covered, text selections, grammar topics, homework assignments, etc.) and on the usefulness/or not of certain activities (such as pair and/or group work in class, etc.) for language learning and the advantages/difficulties of this kind of approach from a strictly practical standpoint. III. Learning beyond German What will you take away from this course beyond the “mere” learning of German that might apply to your other studies and to you as an educated adult? IV. Suggestions and Outlook 1. Beyond the comments you have already made, could you provide some suggestions for the conceptualization and the conduct of the course in the future. This could be in terms of content areas that should/should not be addressed, books and materials that you would like to see excluded/included, approaches that you would like to have seen (or not), work load.2. How do you see your future work in learning German. What do you plan to do, in terms of future classes or outside of formal instruction? (e.g., reading of books, magazines, newspapers, listening to German Radio, watching movies in German) VI. Anything else? I am grateful for the time you took to fill out this questionnaire. It will be helpful as I assess the work of this
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