In my English Language coursework investigation I shall be examining 7 e-mails from a French girl, Francesca Pacchiarotti, a French student learning English as her second language.

The aim of my assignment is to examine the way in which Francesca uses English language as her second language in the written form and also identify common problems she has with the English language.

New language acquisition is a lot easier the younger you are and this is because of the innate language acquisition ability that is present in children. Another explanation for this is because younger people have little to focus on whereas older people have many other responsibilities and occupations. However, in England, we tend not to have access to a foreign language until high school and at this stage language acquisition becomes harder because they do not have regular access to it, possibly once or twice a week.

‘Nothing will ever make learning languages easy’ this was said be Henry Sweet in 1899 and to this day nothing has been invented to make learning a language, even one’s f

What she wrote – I passed my birthday at my friends

· Investigation into the use of English as a second language in the spoken form, instead of the written form, this would involve a change in mode.

From my analysis, language interference plays a part in the way that Francesca writes English and as I mentioned in my introduction, her first language rules cannot just be forgotten.

I came up with lots of explanations for why she use d the present tense, hence focusing on the formation of the tense. I came up with several alternatives.

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