Select one of the following tasks.

Assessed Task 1

Select a learner, if possible at intermediate level or above. Make a recording of an interview with your learner in the target language. Transcribe the interview and analyse your learner's interlanguage in terms of its characteristic features, using the areas discussed in Section 1 to guide your discussion, ie:

• The primary of lexis (section 2.1.2): does your learner's interlanguage suggest a primarily lexical approach, with less attention paid to morphology?
  
  
• Grammaticization (section 2.1.2): To what extent is your learner starting to 'grammaticize'? Which grammatical features are present? Which grammatical features are problematic? Is there evidence of overgeneralization of grammatical features?
  
  
• Staged development (section 2.1.4): Does any of the evidence on staged development in second language acquisition help shed light of any of your learner's problems? (You may well not be in a position to answer this).
  
  
• Chunks and formulae (section 2.1.5): is there any evidence of your learner using chunks?
  
  
• Cross-linguistic influence (section 2.1.6): What evidence is there of cross-linguistic influence? Do the concepts of markedness and psychotypology shed any light on why the cross-linguistic influence may have occurred on that particular item/area of language?

Assessed Task 2

Record (using audio or video) a language class, preferably your own. Based on your recording and accompanying lesson plans, handouts, etc, analyse the different learning activities which made up the class in terms of the different kinds of language learning processes and approaches reviewed in Sections 2.2 and 2.3.

Given what you now know about SLA, explain how this lesson contributed to the learners' development of a second language. Can you suggest any areas for change in order to make the lesson more effective? Try to explain any suggestions in terms of the SLA issues discussed in this module.