Name: Malik

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Year level: 12

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Age: 17

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Country of origin: Iran

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ELLP: Oral language: Stage 1; Reading: Stage 1B; Writing: Foundation Stage B

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Malik has been in NZ for 6 months. He can speak clearly in English using long, but not necessarily standard, phrases. He relies heavily on formulaic phrases, but is developing his own hypotheses about English and enjoys experimenting with these in oral communication. He uses a wide range of high frequency colloquial phrases. He can retell main ideas from listening to a text at level one (ELIP), and is functioning at stage 1, in oral work. Malik can negotiate simple transactions and express his own opinions. However, with written text Malik is at foundation stage B. His sentences show a restricted range of learned structures, and a wide range of errors. Malik is reading at Stage 1B.

Malik (Iranian 17 years old)