This assignment is focuses on an adult French speaking Congolese learner in the Elementary group. The student will be referred as Isabelle N. Her learning background includes formal English classes in the Republic of Congo. She started her classes at the age of twelve and her last formal class was two years ago when she stopped attending college. She completed her secondary education in Congo and started her diploma in Business Education, but did not finish. She moved to South Africa three months ago with the goal of writing the Matriculation examinations and studying either nursing or dentistry.
Her learning is affected by her background in the following ways. Isabelle comes from a country where English is not the first language. The English teachers were non-native speakers themselves which means that she has been taught by teachers who spoke her first language and may have clarified and explained in
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Linguistic Ability
As an English speaker, Isabelle is able to hold a conversation in simple present tense. She speaks clearly and very confidently. She self corrects when she makes a mistake. For an elementary student Isabelle’s vocabulary is extensive. In class during feedback, she likes to answer most questions and correct her fellow students. In reading Isabelle is able to read simple text and read for gist. Isabelle is able to write short phrases and simple sentences. Listening for gist and scanning are the easier part of listening for Isabelle.
Skills Weakness
Speaking Isabelle has typical French speaker of pronouncing vowels , the h ( sound ) the French way. She does not say the articles. The student also emphasising the wrong stress on the wrong syllable of a word Writing Isabelle is not able to write complete sentences, She is not able use capitals at the beginning of sentences
Reading Isabelle is not able to read for detail and comprehension
Listening She is not able to listen for detail as she finds reading the longer sentences
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