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TASK Nanda is a 14-year-old Thai exchange student who has been studying in an Australian school over the past 12 months. Her L1 is Thai, and she has been studying English as a foreign language in the Thai school system since primary school. She is in year 9 in the Australian school. Nanda is a confident speaker of English, and although she often struggles to find the right English word or expression, she does not shy away from communicating and asking for help if she can’t make herself understood. She has made many friends through her interests in sport. She is staying with an Australian family where members of the family have travelled to Thailand on a holiday, but who cannot speak Thai. There is a girl of Nanda’s age in the family who goes to the same school, but whose interests are very different to Nanda’s. Consequently, they do not spend a lot of time socialising with the same friends, and because of this, their out-of-school timetables are quite different and they do not spend much time studying together at home. Although Nanda has no difficulties communicating with her friends and the home-stay family, she finds the academic work challenging. In Thailand she was a high academic performer, but she is now struggling to learn the subjects in her L2. She finds the classwork in her Australian school too fast paced, and lacking in opportunity to check her understanding in manageable chunks. She finds that although the teachers are very kind and supportive of her, none of them spend any time checking her understanding of the subject they are teaching. Although there are other students in some of her classes who are Thai speakers, the teachers forbid them to use Thai in their classes, saying that they could only speak in English, and often discourage students from the same L1 background to sit together. Because the other Thai students live far from where Nanda lives, she doesn’t have an opportunity to socialise and discuss homework with them after school or on weekends. Nanda’s strategy has been to actively share the topics she is struggling on social media with her friends in Thailand. Her Thai friends in turn share what they have learned in common subject areas and Nanda is finding this an important source of support in her learning Explains key concepts relating to language development, drawing on theories from required subject readings Analyses linguistic, psychological and social dimensions of learning using ideas from required subject readings Relates theory to classroom practice Produces accurate and cohesive written English, with correct citation and referencing