Appendix IV: Personal Evaluative Questionnaire
Please TYPE this document
Name: …………………………………..
Italian University: ……………………..
This questionnaire is intended to allow you to reflect upon and evaluate several
important aspects of your experiences during Year Abroad in relation to the following
four categories: linguistic, academic, cultural and inter-cultural, personal
development. In this way, the questionnaire will not only be an important stage in
evaluating the Year Abroad but it will also provide the basis for your own resoconto
upon which the oral examination at the beginning of Year Three will be based.
You are required to submit this questionnaire on the first day of term, on
returning to Warwick
1. Linguistic
1) How would you assess your Italian at this stage? Please include estimates of how
much time you spend each day on the following skills and provide comments:
(a)
(b)
(c)
speaking at various levels (e.g. formal or informal, telephoning)
listening in various contexts (e.g. conversations with strangers, lectures,
radio, TV, cinema, theatre, etc)
reading (e.g. newspapers, novels, magazines, etc)
(d) writing (esp. assignments completed during the year)
2) What factors and contexts have been most important in improving your Italian
during the Year Abroad (e.g. studying at university, social networks, living
arrangements, etc.)
3) What are the main areas in which you feel that you need to improve and what
conscious steps have you taken towards improvement?
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2. Academic
1)
How do you evaluate in general terms the experience of studying at an Italian
University?
2)
What specific courses and areas of study did you find most stimulating and
why?
3)
What difficulties have you experienced in the university setting and how did
you deal with them?
4)
How well has your programme of study complemented and/or added to your
studies at Warwick?
3. Cultural and Inter-cultural
1) What aspects of Italian culture do/did you find most different from your own
culture?
2) Has any sense you may have had of cultural stereotyping been weakened or
reinforced (please give examples) during your Year Abroad?
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3) To what extent has the Year Abroad made you reflect upon and/or question your
own cultural background (please give examples)?
4. Personal Development
1) What do you see as the most important areas of personal development during the
Year Abroad and indicate the reasons for this.
2) What areas of personal development has the Year Abroad brought that you do not
feel you would have gained studying in England.
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EVALUATIVE COMMENTS
Year: ….………
COMMENTS
List below the more notable things you have done or which have affected you during
the past month in relation to the areas of (1) linguistic progress, (2) academic studies,
(3) cultural and intercultural awareness, and (4) personal development.
1. LINGUISTIC PROGRESS
2. ACADEMIC STUDIES
3. CULTURAL AND INTERCULTURAL AWARENESS
4. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT