Gray themes= Memory

In the orange labels (1) family words like father, mother brother, sister and uncle were found. Within the green labels, words associated with songs (2) were selected.

Utterances such as sound, music, rhythm, lyrics, band, singing, interpret, and so forth were detected. In the red label (3) language words such as English, dictionary, book, school, translation, study and so forth, were selected. The blue labels referred to relationships(4),

meaning the people who were close to the participants as part of, or related to their process of learning the language, with or without music. Samples of the words found were:

teachers, friends, classmates, people, and clients. The purple labels were connected to emotions (5) and words like joy, excitement, interest, love, happy, passion and others were

found in all the narratives, either referring to music or language. Yellow labels identified the time (6) the participants communicated. They made reference to words such as: first time, hours, always, daily, since, until, sometimes, years, I was five, and so on. Pink words were associated with means of communication or media (7). Words like radio, T.V., magazines, the net, articles, and so forth were mentioned as an important feature leading to be in contact with both, English language and music. Finally, the gray label referred to memories (8). The participants brought back memories to the present using words and phrases such as remember, when I was, recall, back then, and a few others.

A partial exemplar taken from Linda B2 illustrates the procedure described, and was applied to all the stories.

I was born in a family that wanted to give as good an education as possible to my sisters and me. So my dad always was the first to support any effort to learn whatever we wanted. When I was seven years old, I watched on TV for the first time the Roof Concert performed by the Beatles. I clearly remember how soon I was caught by the band. At first the performers didn´t say anything to me, but the sound and the rhythm were so intense and vibrant, that I “fell in love” then"

After that instead of hear music for children I started to pay attention in rock and roll music. By the time, my sisters and I had received a book about Disneyland, but we just could see the drawings and pictures because didn´t understand a word, Nevertheless all the new culture about music, movies, TV, radio, as well as magazines, books, toys, tools, technology, etc., everything was coming in English! ... So it was a must we should learn the language.

My first classes were more like a game because I met an english teacher close to home that invited me to take a class with her, so I let my dad know my intentions to attend the curse and he agreed. I clearly remember my first book, it had big black and white drawings, so in each class we painted one or two meanwhile we were practicing. I loved it.

(Please refer to Appendix A for a complete list of color coded words from these labels).

b) Themes formed by clustering labels.

Already colored labels were combined to form themes. The four chosen themes are displayed below:

a) Family (1) and Relationships (4) = Influences b) English Language (3) and Media (6) = Education c) Time (7) and Memories (8) = Recalling

d) Songs (2) and Emotions (5) = Motivation

All the sentences involving these themes were set apart and treated separately.

Examples:

a) Family (1) and Relationships (4) = Influences Mary A1

“My dad had just gotten a cassette with several rock songs". "He wouldn`t play his music very often because my mom didn't like that kind of music but I just could feel that is what I wanted to listen"

"A good friend of my mom brought home a cassette..."

b) English Language (3) and Media (6) = Education Stella A4

"So Meaning or not meaning in the words, the mere sound of the language was enough for me to realize that English was going to always play a very special place in my life"

Julia A2

“My mother used to listen to her radio ....and my father loved listening to British bands in his sound equipment"

c) Time (7) and Memories (8) = Recalling Nancy B1

“In 1989, when I was just seventeen, the transmissions of that broadcast came to the end of the end"

Linda B2

"I clearly remember my first book, it had big black and white drawings" - "I remember a special moment when I went to Cineteca Nacional to see A Hard Day's night film"

d) Songs (2) and Emotions (5) = Motivation Eric C2

"I listened to one of his most famous songs and decided to look for the lyrics, that was the first time I looked for the lyrics of a song... "

Linda B2

"...but the sound and the rithm were so intense and vibrant, that I "Fell in Love"

then"

(For a complete list of excerpts taken from the themes above, refer to Appendix B).

c) Categories

Lastly in the analysis process, similar themes were combined to form categories.

Overall two categories were chosen which closed a circular procedure.

Influences and Education = LANGUAGE LEARNING Recalling and motivation =MUSIC

Through the analysis of themes and categories described above, the major findings emerged and will be explained in detail in chapter four.