Language Awareness Project

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Language
Awareness Project
by Christine Rosemel O. Dialing

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Semantics/Lexical Category
Venue: KFC
Grace: What would you like to eat John?
John: I want fried mother egg.
Grace: Mother egg? What is other egg?
John: Mother egg!
Grace: (Asking James, what is mother egg? James said, “I don’t know”.)
John: (pointing to something… ) there is mother egg!!!
Do you know what is mother egg???

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Mother Egg!

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Semantics/Lexical Category
Pink: I want to drink coffee.
Yellow: Okay.
Pink: How much mug you have? Only one?
Yellow: Oh, I have another one.
Error: Much/lexical (many mugs/or how many cups) /omission (do)

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Semantics/Lexical Category
She considered you very high!
Error: Lexicon/semantics
very high

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…. Once upon a time…
Grapes: I want saynd. (sand)
Orange: What??? What is that?
Grapes: Saynd. Like this (pointing to the plant)
Orange: You mean you are going to make something and will send it
somewhere?
Grapes: No. Saynd.
Orange: What? Could please spell it?
Grapes: S-A-N-D
Orange: Oh! Okay! We call it soil. Sand is from the beach… or in the river…

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PHONOLOGY
Joy: Dr. Steve, we will be having a welcome party for
the new students. Would it be okay for you to be
our speaker?
Dr. Steve: Oh, that’s fine. When would it be?
Joy: Thank you, Sir! It will be on November
Dr. Steve: Location
Joy: (thinking..) Welcome party
A conversation with one native speaker…

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Writing…
“When the world
wars, English
countries
colonied almost
of all over the
world and they
used English
language as
official
language.”
Error # / Correction Error Category Additional
category
1.When the world wars,
/During world war II
2.World wars/world war II
3.English countries/
4.Colonied/colonized
5.Almost all over the
world/certain
1.Structure/semantics
/lexicon
2.Lexicon/Semantics
3.Global error/lexicon
4.Generalization/mor
phology
5.Generalization

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Writing…
“English is very
important
because it is used
in many country.”
Error # / Correction Error Category Additional
category
1.Many country/many
countries
1.inflections

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Writing…
“World is going
to be village.”
Error # / Correction Error Category Additional
category
1.World is going to be
village/ world is going
to be a village?
1.Semantics/lexicon

11. Pronunciation
“Shawtth too the northt ayndt the
south”.

12. Pronunciation (Reading Activity)
Good night
Student 1: gudnayt
Student 2: goudneyt?
Teacher: Okay, let’s hear from our friend

13. Pronunciation (conversation)
Please get the bawl for the soup.
“bowl”