At the beginning I used my five-week guideline as a method of piece-by-piece learning by breaking up what I wanted to learn in each week which was initially supposed to help me master one section and move on to the next until I was able to put all my information together by week five. As my first step, I began researching information about Spanish culture and I also conducted an interview with my friend to learn more about the language. During the second week, I used the method of rehearsal and memorization to learn basic Spanish vocabulary words. I quizzed myself on the words and once I had them memorized I began to add new words to learn. My mom was an example of scaffolding, which helped me learn during this week. In these first two weeks I was intrinsically motivated because I was learning the language only because I wanted to better myself. In week three when I tried learning Spanish words from a book at the library, I wasn’t processing the information resulting in those words going into my short-term memory. While I was happy the first two weeks, in week three I began to feel lazy and uninterested. The purpose to learn the language soon became only so I could successfully do this project making me extrinsically motivated. That motivation began to disappear by week four when I decided to use the method of punishment, which was unsuccessful. I began feeling secondary emotions such as guilt since I was not going through with my goal of learning, feeling like it was too late to improve. By week five I realized that the Spanish terms I had previously learned in high school went to my long term memories, but some of the new words that I learned during week two went to my short term memory making it difficult to recall that information. There was a proactive interference between the new and old words I learned because I would use mix up the definitions between the
At the beginning I used my five-week guideline as a method of piece-by-piece learning by breaking up what I wanted to learn in each week which was initially supposed to help me master one section and move on to the next until I was able to put all my information together by week five. As my first step, I began researching information about Spanish culture and I also conducted an interview with my friend to learn more about the language. During the second week, I used the method of rehearsal and memorization to learn basic Spanish vocabulary words. I quizzed myself on the words and once I had them memorized I began to add new words to learn. My mom was an example of scaffolding, which helped me learn during this week. In these first two weeks I was intrinsically motivated because I was learning the language only because I wanted to better myself. In week three when I tried learning Spanish words from a book at the library, I wasn’t processing the information resulting in those words going into my short-term memory. While I was happy the first two weeks, in week three I began to feel lazy and uninterested. The purpose to learn the language soon became only so I could successfully do this project making me extrinsically motivated. That motivation began to disappear by week four when I decided to use the method of punishment, which was unsuccessful. I began feeling secondary emotions such as guilt since I was not going through with my goal of learning, feeling like it was too late to improve. By week five I realized that the Spanish terms I had previously learned in high school went to my long term memories, but some of the new words that I learned during week two went to my short term memory making it difficult to recall that information. There was a proactive interference between the new and old words I learned because I would use mix up the definitions between the