In this article I present data collected from an adult language learner attending an
EFL course at a large language school in Barcelona. I contrast the breadth, depth
and content of his comments, as well as his manifested ambivalence, with an
end-of-course, pen-and-paper, evaluation form. In doing so, I contrast two very
different ways of capturing language learners’ ongoing evaluation of
courses which they attend. The article is at the same time an exercise in
genre-bending, as I have written it in a style which combines features of
academic and narrative writing.
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