I will definitely consider your advice and significantly reduce the number of questions and change the wording. Again, I highly value honest feedback, knowing what I am doing wrong is precisely the think what I am looking for, so don't hold back any negative opinion! You are probably right and I must reconsider my approach, my personality is very analytical and is easy to consider me "cold". As you say, students look for a totally different thing in a teacher, so I would reflect on that!

Thank you very much.

Hi Susan, thank you for your comment. Can you tell me in which questions you think would be useful to check more than one answer? I can modify that. 

Hell Wanda! I cannot thank you enough for your honest opinion, those are the more valuable! Let me go through your points:

Overwhelming: I was worried about that, I tried to avoid that filling this form would be seen as a chore for the student more than something helpful. I would trim down the questionnaire significantly. 

Impersonal: That's something I didn't consider, do you think there is something I can do to change that, or having my students fill this form is impersonal by itself and there is nothing I can do? 

Possibility: That's a great approach that I would undoubtedly adopt, I will make it completely optional. 

Let me say what my thinking was behind this questionnaire: 

I wanted to have some information about the student before the first class, information that one can obtain completely by himself and where there is no benefit of having a teacher while you answer them. From what's your name and what are your hobbies to what are your goals and priorities (speaking, listening, reading..). Then, when the first lesson arrives we work with that in order to build a more sophisticated plan of study, with goals that we come up with together. 

What I probably got wrong is which topics must me approached in the questionnaire and which exclusively in person. Do you thing there is a way of achieving this without being overwhelming and impersonal?