GR1 - Task analysis
User analysis
User Types:
Students:
Characteristics: High school/college level and age. Technologically apt.
Role: Using the website as a supplement or class assignment for a language class.
Teachers:
Characteristics: Ages and technological aptitude both vary. Purpose is to effectively educate students in the foreign language
Role: Select proper example/supplementary material for students, also contributes material.
Sentence Contributors:
Characteristics: Of all ages and regions. Familiar with the language information is being contributed in. Competent in using technology.
Role: Philanthropic contribution of language supplementary resources.
Textbook Publishers:
Characteristics: Some experience with the language. Purpose is to make money and educate students.
Role: Correspond textbook chapters to online material. Identify user level and vocabulary level suitable for each textbook and chapter.
Task analysis
Finding reading material
Prerequisites
User is reading out of a textbook for which sentences have been added to the database.
- textbook will only have to be specified once. Chapter will be periodically updated
- may want to persist this information (using a login system)
User is studying a course for which the teacher has aggregated sentences.
Subtasks
Inform the system of what textbook you're reading, and what chapter you're reading in.
Inform the system of any particular idioms, grammar patterns, or vocabulary you'd like to practice.
Time constraints
A first-time user will want to be able to access reading material as soon as possible, hence this should take as little time as possible
Frequency
Frequently used by students.
Reading
Prerequisites
User's level of reading needs to be determined beforehand.
Subtasks
Understand the meaning
Define words you didn't understand
Focus your review on vocabulary you didn't understand.
Adding examples of user-level reading and translations
Subtasks
Provide the sentence in the foreign language
Provide the translation in the native language
Indicate what reading level is required to understand this sentence