Assignment: Focus on Learning Student: xxxxxxxxxxx – Nationality: Nepalese Background xxxx has been in England for about 4 months. She followed her husband to the UK with her children. Her husband is doing a PhD. at Oxford University and has a couple of years further study before he finishes. xxxxx is currently working at Primark as a shop assistant. She learnt some basic English while at school‚ however much of this was listening‚ reading and writing based and the opportunity to speak
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For this assignment I interviewed Alessandro‚ an Italian student in the Pre-Intermediate English class. Alessandro has been living in London for a few months now. He came to the UK to search for work as a result of the global economic recession. He would like to improve his spoken English skills to improve his job prospects as well as better integrate into British society. Alessandro has studied English from primary school level to High school level but highlighted that the quality of English learning
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Focus on the Learner – Assignment 1 1. Group Profile It’s a mixed group with a very mixed cultural background as only three students are actually from Germany. Four of the students were born in another country e.g. Lithuania‚ Turkey‚ France and Romania. They all moved to Germany as adults and all share German as a common language. The group is heterogeneous concerning the age they started learning English. Two students started learning as adults while the others started learning at school
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Assignment 2 – Focus on the learner LEARNER’S PROFILE Sonia Meirelles is a 27-year old Brazilian student‚ in the Intermediate English class‚ who has been studying English for 13 months (since August‚ 2011). Sonia has a degree in Biology and used to work as a biology teacher in a regular school‚ however she is currently unemployed. She then decided to start taking English lessons‚ so she could have more chances when trying to find a job. She enjoys the English classes as she believes
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Assignment 2 – Focus on the Learner Background: For the purpose of this assignment‚ I interviewed Cedrick a 23 year old French student from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the intermediate class. Cedrick was born in Lubumbashi. He got his Matric in 2008 and attended university for 2 years before and he ’s learning English so that he can continue his studies in South Africa. “The reason I ’m learning English is that I am a french speaker and I wand to study in a english country‚” he writes
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Learner Profile The Learner is a thirty-six year old Turkish lady who has permanently lived in the UK since 1995. She does not speak any other languages other than Turkish and English. She is a high school graduate with a healthy hunger to learn further. The Learner came to England because of her marriage as her husband‚ another Turkish national‚ has his own business set up in the UK. She is a housewife and mother to twin boys‚ age 14. At her arrival‚ she was not able to speak any English.
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This case study is based on Patricia‚ a Spanish national in her twenties who is in her last year studying an Economics degree course. She is also a student on the Elementary course at the British Language Centre. Patricia’s started learning English at the bi-lingual school she attended. She learnt English for 3 years but did not take any official examinations‚ but sees this as a possibility for the future. At school she learnt English because it was obligatory. The only other language she speaks
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Part 1: Background a) There was a reasonably wide range of ability in this intermediate level group‚ although the majority of students were able to form coherent sentences. Some students were more confident in answering questions aloud‚ while some needed to use their dictionaries regularly during lessons‚ and were less assured with speaking in front of the class. The age ranged anywhere between mid-20’s and late 50’s. The most common interests of the group were listening to music and watching
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Assignment 1: Focus on the Learner Note: The student’s name has been changed for the purpose of this example assignment 1. Background For this assignment‚ I interviewed Suzie‚ a Japanese lady in the Upper-Intermediate English class. Suzie moved to Australia for her husband’s work and has been living here for about one year. Back in Japan‚ she worked in an office but is not currently working here. She would like to improve her English so she can make new friends here and more fully integrate into
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Focus on the learner 1. The learner’s background 1.1. The learner (will be also referred to as “the student”) comes from Paris‚ France. He is a twenty-five year old male and he came to Australia two weeks ago. Back in France the learner worked as a children’s educator‚ and his current aspirations are to learn English well enough to find a job in education sector in Australia. 1.2. The student learned English at school‚ where the approach was teacher-centered with a lot of grammar and few opportunities
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