Celta Assignment - Focus on the Learner

She talked about how studying night after night was very stressful for her. I have also stressed about school work on many occasions, making me know the feeling very well. We both had to work hard to keep up or try to get ahead. “ I did not sleep during those years”(223.) I was tired and stressed out like her, even with the education we both already knew. After some time I realized I needed some help. Jordan’s help was a small study group that her roommate formed. My help was also a study group and a tutor that made me feel just about how she felt. I feel like if she had a tutor she could have felt the education earlier like how I did. “ Finally, I felt I was really learning things, really going to school.”(223.) Having that group and tutor made me feel just about how Jordan felt, not stressed anymore because we finally understood what was going on and being said. We both can reach out and defend ourselves with our own

As a result, she lacked confidence in her education. She stated, “My early education did not partake of the abundant opportunities which the present day affords and which even our common schools now afford. I was never sent to any school; I was always sick.” Even though she did not attend a formal school it did not put her out of reach of a proper education (Peterson, 9).

5. One of the effects that her mother’s limited English has had on Tan’s life is the fact that, that was the language that helped shape the way she saw things, expressed things, and

This was because her mother’s version of English and its modified rules caused Tan to be confused on some of the questions.

Student shows an excellent understanding of language and how it is used in their chosen

Sonia is very confident when using both present simple (using the auxiliary verb DO in interrogative sentences and DON’T in negative sentences, placing adverbs and conjugating the verbs with He, she and It correctly) and past simple tenses (using the auxiliary verb DID in interrogative sentences and DIDN’t in negative sentences –and the verbs in the base form - and being aware of regular and irregular verbs).

On her short home visit she was able to see the different between her formal life and her new life. She was struggling to pay rent because her jobs didn’t pay her enough. In previous life she was only concern about writing and she did have to worry about rent money or finding a job.

Time and time again, Tan’s mother’s inability to speak proper English is seen by standard English speakers as a sign that she is unintelligent; they believe that the way she speaks is wrong and therefore the things she has to say are not important. This belief is so pervasive that as a teen, Tan herself used to believe that her mother was not smart because of how she spoke. Because Tan’s mother’s speech did not follow the rules of traditional English, Tan “believed that her [mother’s] English reflected the quality of what she had to say. That is, because she expressed them imperfectly, her thoughts were imperfect” (146). Because Tan’s mother speaks in ways that are described as “broken” and “limited”, as a teen Tan felt her mother’s language indicated that her mom was simple minded. However, as Tan grew up, she came to appreciate the beauty and intellect behind her mother’s words. While Tan’s friends comment that they cannot understand a majority of what Tan’s mother says, Tan hears her mother’s speech as “perfectly clear, perfectly natural”, and remarks that “her language, as [she] hear[s] it, is vivid, direct, full of observations and imagery” (146). Tan’s friends seem to hear Tan’s mother’s speech on a surface level; since they cannot understand what she is trying to say, they cannot understand how rich her language is. Just because Tan’s friends do not understand her mother, it does not make the intricacies of how she speaks any less unique. The tendency of standard English

In order to fulfill her dream, she went to school unlike other girls. She learned academic subjects like Latin and Greek. More

A: "After primary school, I studied at secretarial high school because her family couldn 't afford to go a College. *Jane answers phone* After I completed my schooling at high school, I then worked for my

Over the past four years since John started school in Australia his level of English has improved a lot; especially his receptive use of the language. John is a talented language student and is achieving great results in both additional languages he is studying at the moment, English and Japanese. Due to his cultural background John does not volunteer to speak freely during class. This makes it hard for his teacher to find the degree of depth of his understanding of new concepts learned in class. However, he is a passionate language learner and his focus is to perfect his knowledge in both additional languages.

As the play continued, Mariposa says that she never really went to school, and taught herself to read while incarcerated,

Over the past four years that I have known and worked alongside Arlene, I have witnessed the lengths she goes to, not only to teach her students how to read and write in another language, but also the basic skills they need to settle into life in a new country.

In order to help my chosen learner I will focus on her problem with use of the definite article “the”, and I will devise a suitable lesson plan with relevant materials in relation to her language problem. It is also my adopted view that she needs to practice using the English language more outside the classroom environment, as tests have proven that grasping the English language for foreign students is achieved better by a combination of classroom learning and practicing the language outside the classroom environment), as opposed to just learning in the classroom and not practicing the language outside (David Riddell in Teaching English as a Foreign Language)

Aside from writing, Feruza’s is struggling with the correct verb form usage. When referring to events in her writing that occurred in the past she only uses the simple past tense and oftentimes she even uses the Present Simple Tense when referring to a completed action in the past: