Patrick TS #7

Date/Time: September 14, 2018, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m.

Location: CIES Student Lounge

Topic Discussed: Continuation of Writing Practice

This lesson was a follow-up to our previous lesson. During the previous lesson, I asked my Tutee to send me an email in which she recommended places in her country for me to see and foods I should eat. I was pleased that she responded favorably to the request and sent her email the next day. She is at the beginning level and really wants to learn. Intrinsic motivation is obvious and so is extrinsic motivation. She wants to attend FSU!

I copied the email she sent and brought them to today's meeting to discuss. More scaffolding is needed at this development level and I tried to keep the vocabulary simple and the pace of speech slow. The email printouts helped continue the previous discussion focused on writing. In addition, she asked me to read a narrative piece she had written. I was surprised to see how many words she had “put on the page”. This writing sample seemed to be light years ahead of the initial writing I saw previously. She is learning at a good pace in her CIES program.

Work on verbs is needed and one of the items we worked on today. We will work on verbs next week.