Siena Failla TS #2 Abraheem

I met with Abraheem for our second tutoring session on Thursday, May 12th. In order to incorporate both speaking and writing, I planned to spend the first half of our session on speaking practice. Using my own experience with language learning, I thought the best way to practice speaking with Abraheem was to simply have a conversation. If there were ever any errors, I made an effort to incorporate what he had said in my response but changed the phrasing in order to show him the correct grammatical structure. At times, he gave rather short responses, so I tried to encourage him to expand on his responses by asking for more details. Overall, this first half of our session gave me a better understanding of what methods for correction helped him best. I then turned our attention to writing. In our first session, he mentioned that writing was the most difficult linguistic skill for him. I wanted to use this session to conduct a sort of diagnostic and figure out what aspects of writing he needs the most practice with. Abraheem had mentioned that, not only was writing his weakest area but also his least favorite. In an attempt to make this more enjoyable for him, I gave him 10 minutes to free-write. I told him he could write about himself and his family, life in Libya, or anything he wanted me to know. I essentially gave him creative liberty. Unfortunately, towards the end of the 10 minute timed writing session, it started storming and we had to cut the session short. (On campus buildings were closing fairly early last week since Summer A classes are not yet in session and we had to meet outside). Next week I plan on beginning with writing since we were not able to finish that this week.

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