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:

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                          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

   1.. Characteristics; Of all ages and regions. Familiar with the language information is being contributed in. Competent in using technology.

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                          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.

- 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

Domain analysis