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Generation 1.5 (U.S. educated language learners) Sample Writings

New English Language Learners Sample Writing

Generation 1.5 (U.S. educated language learners) Sample Writings

First off if criminals are sent to capital punishment they wont suffer or even pay for the crime they committ. Capital punishment isnêt the answer. Criminals wont suffer, the only time the person suffers is waiting to be excuted after death criminal donêt feel nothing. If these criminals stay in jail not only will they suffer but they might start to develop a consious. These people would start to think about their acts and relize that there freedom was taken away because of there acts. Some of these criminals will maybe start to fell the guilt while seening that they just kill someone a human being. The biggest punishment that a criminal can receive is jail without bial and for life.

Sometimes when I speak to my grandmother in Spanish is kind of hard to explain myself in Spanish to her and she would get mad at me because Spanish is my first language but I am so use to talking english and writing english. That when I do speak Spanish I forget a little.

	Analysis of sample writing
	These writings are from students who are familiar with U.S. culture and schooling and have social skills in English. These students have oral fluency and may even appear native, but they speak a non-standard variety of English that might contain persistent (fossilized) errors such as missing –ed and –s endings, errors in verb tense and form, word forms and function words such as prepositions and articles. They might also lack academic literacy, which makes their writing sound like oral speech written down. However, mastery of complex sentence structure is evident in their writing.

	Tips for identifying a generation 1.5 student:
	Notice the fluency but lack of standard English in their writing Notice the speech-written-down feel of their writing because of their lack of academic literacy skills Notice the repeated mistakes usually in missing –ed and –s endings, in tense and verb and word forms and their inability to identify or use parts of speech Notice the clumsy phrases or awkward expressions based on lack of idiomatic usage and incorrect use of function words, such as prepositions and articles Notice the level of mastery of complex sentence structure

New English Language Learners Sample Writing