Celta Written Assignment - Focus on the Learner

Celta written assignment Focus on the learner Part 2 Grammar What the student said/wrote

What the student should have

Why did the student make

said/written

the mistake

Error 1 She have a long brown hair.

This is an uncountable noun, She has long brown hair

she used it as if it were a

(Written)

countable noun.

Error 2

She didn’t know the correct

“When someone make you a

Someone does something to

words to use so used words

mistake”.

hurt you

she knew, to roughly make

(Spoken) Error 3

sense. Who met her

She used the present tense

Who meet her

verb of to meet instead of the

(written)

past tense met.

Phonology What the student said/wrote

What the student should have

Why did the student make

said/written

the mistake

Error 1: Tælkætive

Says it how it is spelt tɔkətɪv

Error 2:

Says it how it is spelt æfekʃnət

æfektinət Error 3: ʃəæt

Pronounced the letter I too ʃərt

strong

Lexis What the student said/wrote

What the student should have

Why did the student make

said/written

the mistake

Error 1:

Library is a false friend Bookstore

(cognate)

Library Error 2:

A conserdated school.

She took an English A government subsidised

sounding word she knew that

school

she thought was close to the meaning and tried it.

Error 3:

Have a drink is a collocation using the verb to have. She

Take a drink

Have a drink

probably thought of taking a drink in the literal sense.