Sample Texts--Ear Learners or Eye Learners?

Student A—Ear learner

“For example, I can use my ability to look at sawer system, I can see which pipe is get old and rusy to the sawer department can fixit first before it blow up.”

The errors tend to be more usage.  The grammatical errors that are there are based on inflection or other  word-final issues.

Student B—Ear learner

“But there’re still a lot of problem that I have to dealing with because of my economic change just like pople say “more money more problem.”

The passage is fairly fluently written.  There are some sentence boundary problems. The spelling problems tend to be homophonic. This indicates the writer is using oral language in his/her written work.

Student C—Ear learner (possibly Gen 1.5)

Uses idiomatic expressions with spelling errors.  Fluently written.  Relatively few errors.

Student D—Eye Learner

This student has pretty good spelling, and his sentence level problems  tend to be grammar errors more than usage errors.

Student E—Eye Learner

Basic grammatical errors (that are not usage errors).  Seem to be some transference errors, as in “for the survive.” The fact that he identifies himself as from another country suggests that he learned English in a classroom.

Student F—Ear Learner

The fluent, stream of consciousness type of writing here suggests that the student is a proficient oral speaker.

The Importance of Dance—Eye Learner

This one is difficult.  It is very fluently written, and many of the errors are either inflection or word-final errors.  The student shows a very sophisticated understanding of essay structure and argumentation, which to me would indicate previous educational experience.  This and the fact that many of the errors seem to be grammatical rather than usage-based would indicate that the writer is an Eye Learner.

Pot Legal—Ear Learner

The writing is fluent.  The biggest problems with this essay are not grammatical but organizational and genre specific.

Weird Friday—Ear Learner

The writing  is very fluent, and the errors tend to be more usage based than grammatical.

Spelling—Ear Leaner

Errors tend to be more usage based than grammatical. There are some word final mistakes (rather than errors).

Introduction Sample 1—Ear Learner

The writing  is fairly fluent, and the errors tend to be usage based (specifically homophonic spelling errors).

Introduction Sample 2—Ear Learner

A lot of errors that are homophonic spelling errors.  Some sentences are perfectly formed, and he uses some idiomatic expressions.

Introduction Sample 3—Ear Learner

Use of idiomatic expressions.  Fluent writer.