Shirley's Interlanguage Analysis

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When Shirley reads aloud, her interlanguage causes her to misplace the word and sentence stress. Even though this may affect how well she is understood by others when she reads, her level of understanding when she reads is good at this level.

This term, Shirley was asked to analyse the novella, ‘Of Mice and Men.’ From her responses in quizzes, homework assignment and writing activities based on the book; it is evident that her ability to tackle unknown words and phrases are developing well.

Shirley has learnt some metalanguage/ techniques to examine literary devices used in poetry and narratives. This has helped her successfully identify such things as the character’s role and the setting when asked. In addition, she was able to distinguish

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