Case analyze

Laila Mohammed
Reem Nasser
Haifa Ali
 Second language acquisition or
second language learning is the
process in which people learn a
second language. Second language
acquisition is also the name of the
scientific field that studies the
process.
 Why are we
Cultural understanding
learning second
Academic benefits
language?
Enhanced career opportunities
Student A
Mohammed
 Speaking..

Capabilities:
He can speak and retell the words well.

He can spill the sounds very good.

He knows what is he reading.

Mistakes:
Nothing, but his hyperactive effect on him.
Student B
Salama
 Speaking..
Capabilities:
She know the letters well like M,S,Cetc.

Mistakes:
Instead of saying Chocolate she spell it by
shocolate.
She does not know some of the words like
Queen.
Student C
Khalid
 Capabilities.
He is capable to spell some of the words correctly.
He is able to read outload easily.
He is a good speaker.
Mistakes.
Instead of saying the sound P he replace it by
saying b.
Which are not the same, but in Arabic language we
have on b letter and it just mixed on him.
Writing
 He can write Arabic very well with no
missing's letters.

He has a problem and its that when he is

writing he makes big spaces between word
letters.

But he is capable to write and he knows the

letters, he is an excellent student.
 He is capable to write the sentence
with pictures.

In his writing there are missing letters

in each word. E.g. Playd= Played.

His writing in Arabic is excellent unlike

his second language.
Strategies that were used.
 Phonetic- Approx. (5-7)
Spelling attempts show almost a perfect match between
letters and sound.
Children make attempts to spell difficult words.
They may experience difficulty In discriminating certain
sounds accurately enough to match them with
appropriate letter or letter cluster. E.g. Sbin=Spin,
Sdop=Stop, Chch= Church.
 Connection to theories.
More irregular words are written as if they were phonically
correct. E.g. Wos=Was, Sed=Said, Bcos= Because.

Children at this stage need to be taught the use of

strategies. Such as Visual imagery and spelling by
analogy, as sometimes some children do not progress
beyond this stage.
References:

4.1 child language acquisition theory chomsky, crystal, Aitchison &

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