Your final summative assessment for this course will consist of three parts: (1) learner profile and error analysis, (2) theoretical part of the chosen grammatical pattern, and (3) lesson plan. To help you prepare for this final summative assessment, you will work on pieces of it through a series of three formative assessments.
For these assessments, you will need to choose one English learner and get them to agree to sign a consent form. If the learner is under the age 18, please ask a parent or guardian to also sign the consent form.
After finding an English learner, interview them about their language learning experience and record your interview. Please include a transcript of your interview with this assignment. As you listen to your English learner, listen for grammatical errors that they make and take notes on these grammatical errors (this is an important part of this assignment).
After your interview, ask your English learner to send you one sample of their writing (this should be an original piece of writing).
Based on the interview and the writing sample note grammar errors in speaking and writing. Compare the grammar errors and find out the most similar errors they make both in spoken and written language. Choose one error for remedial teaching. Note that this forms part of a needs assessment by using real data collected from an English learner (written and spoken).
Part A. Learner profile
Write a language learning profile of your English learner, including relevant details you learned about them through your interview.
Demonstrate an awareness of how a learner’s background, previous learning experience, and learning preference(s) may affect their learning. Here are some topics to cover (but please include additional relevant information).
Age
Prior and current instruction of English
Any assessment data that may be available (e.g., CEFR level, test data)
Reason for studying English
Plans for using English
Opportunities to use or be exposed to English
How much do they enjoy studying English
Part B: Error analysis
Provide example sentences from the learner’s oral and written production that exhibit the grammatical error. Then provide corrected versions of these sentences (to show how these could be expressed following the grammar rules of English). In other words, you should have a pairs of sentences: the first will be the incorrect form used by your learners and the second will be the corrected form.
Then analyze why the learner made this error. Consider what overgeneralization, interference, and/or assumption may have contributed to this learner making this error. Below is a chart that may help you organize your error analysis section.
