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- High school/college level and age. Technologically apt.
- slightly to moderately literate in foreign language of study
- motivation is to expand personal knowledge of a foreign language
Role: Using the website as a supplement or class assignment for a language class.
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- Ages and technological aptitude both vary. Purpose is to effectively educate students in the foreign language
- expert in foreign language of study
- motivation is to teach students
Role: Select proper example/supplementary material for students, also contributes material.
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Indicate what reading abilities are required to understand this sentence
Observations
All of our observed users currently use browser extensions such as the Rikaichan to provide readings and definitions for unknown characters without needing to go to a separate translation site.Contributors tend to be students in higher levels of the language and are contributing to help students at a lower level. Most contributions are constructive; however, students required by professors to contribute materials to such a site might be unenthusiastic about making a stellar example.
Creating a collection of supplementary reading for a class
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Inform students about newly available supplementary sentences once they are covered in class.
