GR1 - Task analysis

User analysis

1. User Analysis:
   1. User Types:

                                                               i.      Students

1. Characteristics: high school/college (most), young (most), technologically apt (most)
2. Role: Using the website as a supplement to textbooks

                                                             ii.      Teachers

1. Characteristics: Ages and technological aptitude both vary. Purpose is to effectively educate students in the foreign language.
2. Role: Select proper supplementary material for students, also contributes supplementary material.

                                                            iii.      Sentence Contributors

                                                           iv.      Textbook Publishers

Task analysis

Finding reading material

Prerequisites

User is reading out of a textbook for which sentences have been added to the database.

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.

Reading

Adding examples of user-level reading and translations

Find reading material that is at my reading level, and read it.

Specify to the website what textbook you're learning from, what chapter you're in.

Lookup readings and definitions of unknown characters

Find more examples of a certain idiom usage.

Add examples of reader-understandable sentences.

Assemble a collection of sample sentences for your course from existing sentences on the website.

Contribute translations of existing sentences.

Domain analysis