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1: Task 1 & 2 Overview:

All 15 of the learners fell below their target of band 6 in both task 1 and task 2. On the positive side, with regard to coherence and cohesion in both tasks, students scored well. They tended to be able to arrange information and ideas coherently and had clear overall progression throughout: Duong T2: Firstly, there is some disadvantage for young people Learners were also successful in the area of lexical resource where 8 out of 15 were awarded a band 6. E.g. Hung in T2 shows good awareness of collocation : deep fear of loneliness However, errors in word form and spelling predominate the learners responses Hoang T2: They reduce the depend on their parents.

Main reasons for learners not meeting their targets in the writing paper:

The criteria where the students suffered most were task achievement, where the group got an average of band 4, and grammatical range and accuracy, in which they managed a 5.1 average in task 1 and . Meanwhile in task 1, task achievement again was their weakest area (class average: 4.0) as well as lexical resource (5.46) and grammatical range and accuracy (5.2). The reasons for these scores were as follows:

Writing Diagnostic Test Findings 1-7: 1. The vast majority of the scripts (13 of the 15 in task 1 and a similar number for task 2) looked like they hadnt been proofread. This made the basic error count very high in both lexis and grammar. More specifically, these basic errors were in the areas of pluralisation, article omission and subject-verb agreement. Duong T1: It make a gap between two generation. (See the grammar and lexis error correction supplement to the diagnostic test below)

2. Some of the errors cause some difficulty for the reader Giang P T2: then they want to give up their purposes. There are not many family have two generation house same.

3. Penalties were given to three students for low word count in task 1 and two students in task 2 e.g. Duong only managed 182 words in task 2. 4. The task 2 prompt was either partially responded to in a minimal way in over 70% of the scripts. They wrote about the causes of the trend of young people leaving home before they get married and not about the advantages and disadvantages of the trend as they had been required to.

5. In spite of their high scores in the grammar and lexis error correction diagnostic test, the learners had difficulty demonstrating a mix of simple and complex sentence forms in task 1. Giang Vu: 1: Besides that, the amount they spent on petrol decreases gradually. 2: The percentage of income people in United Kingdom spend on petrol rises sharply.3: How much people in America spend on petrol falls gradually. She neglected to show versatility in grammatical range by alternating verb + subject with there was plus adjective + noun i.e. There was a gradual fall in the amount people in America spend on petrol.

6. In over 60% of the learners task 1 responses, the learners failed to present an overview with information appropriately selected. Hoang Overall, it is clear that the income from selling petrol in the United States is higher.Giang P: In America, the poorest who use petrol is the highest percent. Giang Vu: General speaking, the richest people in both areas spend on petrol at 4% of income or lower.

7. In task 2, 5 of the learners lifted language chunks from the prompt. Duyen: Nowadays, it is true that young single people no longer stay with their parents until they get married. In fact, they leave to study or work somewhere else. Giang Vu: In many countries nowadays, young single people no longer stay with their parents until they are married because they want to go away to study of work. Similarly in task 1, Seven members of the group were unable to adequately paraphrase the prompt when writing their introductory sentences. Duy N: The diagram shows about how much people in the United States and the United Kingdom spend on petrol.