She couldn't even start to pronounce those words. She was stumped. It was no fault of her own, of course. The memory load is too great. Many many words are forgotten.
Many spellings are confused.
Pronunciation of new words remains a mystery to students until the teacher first reads the words. Dislike for English increases as the junior high school students experience continuing failure, shame and stress. Writing is a way of recording and recalling spoken language's sounds and meanings. Teachers sometimes get Japanese students to write in English, but the students, without English phonics knowledge, cannot later pronounce what they have written. So writing in English is not a memory aid for these students at all.