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Represent the following text in the standard way
| Spoken text | Standard representation |
| … you know but … they used to go out in … they used to come … you know … the lovely sunsets you get at that time …there’s a nice new postcard … a nice … well I don’t know how new it is … it’s been a while since I’ve been here … of a sunset …you know… a new one … |
(Adapted from Brown, G. and G. Yule. 1983. Teaching the Spoken Language. CUP. P. 11-12)
In the continuation of the mentalist ideas in linguistics and in the wake of promising psycholinguistic research a natural approach to language teaching was developed (Krashen, S., and T.Terrell. 1983. The Natural Approach. Oxford:Pergamon). The method sought the conformity with the naturalistic language learning by young children. The method exploited the concept of a "creative construction theory", according to which the learners construct internal representation of the language they learn. Part of the "creative construction theory" was the concept of the inter-language (Selinker, L. 1992. Rediscovering Inter-language. London:Longman), which means the learner's language in the process of acquisition and development. It appears that learners’ “inter-language”, has some typical characteristics and to a certain extent repeats the road s/he once travelled in acquiring the native tongue. Also, this process is very similar to acquiring different non-native languages spoken by humans.
Exploratory task 2.4
Recall the most typical English learner errors and rate them in order of frequency according to your own experience. Share your results with the peers and add to the list of errors from each other. Work out the group error rating together.
| Errors | Individual rating | Group rating |
As a result of studies into the inter-language development, elementary, pre-intermediate, intermediate and advanced levels of language learning were introduced to meet the criteria of developmental approach to language teaching and learning.
