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Questions with multi-part answers (e.g: language and fluency) #46

Open hestenet opened 6 years ago

hestenet commented 6 years ago

The suggested question structure for Languages suggests that the respondent be able to pick an arbitrary language, and then select a fluency level for that language.

It's a bit tricky to figure out how to implement this in a machine readable format like a JSON file, but here is my suggestion - two sets of choices, one a free entry field, or perhaps populated from a standardized list of languages as a drop down, and a companion field for fluency. This should be fillable multiple times (logic which would have to be implemented by the developers consuming the JSON). 

    "category-language": {
    "id": "language",
    "short-description": "The person's languages.",
    "long-description": "The respondent's languages and fluency levels.",
    "questions": {
      "languages": {
        "type": "double-select",
        "self-identify": "false",
        "prefer-not-to-answer": "false",
        "does-not-apply": "false",
        "prompt": "Choose the language(s) you are conversant in and identify your proficiency",
        "choices": {
          "language-known": [
            {
              "id": "language",
              "value": "language",
              "label": "Language:"
            }
          ],
          "fluency": [
            {
              "id": "elementary-basic",
              "value": "elementary-basic",
              "label": "Elementary Proficiency / Basic"
            },
            {
              "id": "limited-working",
              "value": "limited-working",
              "label": "Limited Working Proficiency / Conversational"
            },
            {
              "id": "professional-working",
              "value": "professional-working",
              "label": "Professional Working Proficiency / Business"
            },
            {
              "id": "full-fluent",
              "value": "full-fluent",
              "label": "Full Professional Proficiency / Fluent"
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
drnikki commented 6 years ago

This looks good to me, but there will need to be a way to allow folks to enter indigenous languages. Thinking about this globally - there are thousands of languages and dialects that people speak that are part of their identity and which they may want to be counted.