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General description
- For a beginner ESL speaker, the learner's ability to write is severely limited by
her/his knowledge of the language itself (vocabulary, structure, etc.), in addition to the
limited exposure to the sound-symbol relationship and spelling conventions in English.
- May be literate in the same alphabet ( may know and write all the familiar letters both
upper and lowercase).
- Writes a small number of familiar words and simple learned phrases in predictable
contexts related to immediate needs.
- Limited ability to phonetically encode and write unfamiliar words unless they contain
sequences of letters and soundsymbol correspondences known from first language or previous
learning.
- Can write more items of personal information in forms and fill out simple slips.
- Can write a few sentences or phrases about self, family or other highly familiar
information in the form of a simple description, either as answers to questions or when
guided by some other format of text or context.
- Accuracy in structure and spelling inconsistent.
- Can copy basic factual information from directories or schedules.
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