Abstract
This survey aimed at exploring how learners of English, Japanese and Korean make sense of language learning. To elicit learners’ inner voice, visual and written descriptive data were collected to investigate what is expressed in different ways brings different outcomes. As a result, the visual data was characterized by the following features: it expresses abstraction, learners’ narratives, emotions depicted by facial expressions with color tones, and it interprets a certain phenomenon. On the other hand, the written data was characterized by the following features: it expresses concreteness and the influence of social discourse, it logically expressed emotions and multiple phenomena were represented. Based on these results, the potentials of visual data as a new method for learner research shall be discussed.
