Piggy pedagogy

Piggy pedagogy

Monday, January 2, 2017

Yearly statistics (2016)

Here were the stats from last year (2015):

Total L2 audio: 80.33 hours
Avg: 13:14 minutes per day

Total L2 video: 95.26 hours
Avg: 15:41 minutes per day

Here is this year (2016):

Total L2 audio: 54.28 hours
Avg: 8.95 minutes per day.

Total L2 video: 70.45 hours
Avg: 11.63 minutes per day

Total L2 gamplay: 8.40 hours
Avg: 1.4 minutes per day (but highly sporadic)

So in 2016 J had about 20 minutes of audio-visual L2 input per day, down from about 30 minutes in 2015. Most of this reduction has to do with the fact that 2016 was the first full chronological year that J was in school full-time; in half of 2015 he was still in pre-school, which was half-days three days a week. At that time, I was still generally able to spend one weekday per week with him in an L2-intensive way. My six-week absence in summer 2016 also had an effect. 

All in all, I feel J is getting a substantial amout of L2 media input every day. 

Update: Another difference in the 2016 stats is that for the last several months, there are several regular instances of L2 media use I am no longer recording because it is inconvenient. For example, as I write this, J is sitting in the bathtub listening to Pu der Bär. He regularly listens to audiobooks in the tub and playing (for example with legos), both in German and in English. Over the course of a year this probably amounts to several extra hours of L2 listening. 

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