I met with Anka at Strozier. His English is quite
advanced when it comes to reading and analyzing texts, though I am still
worried about his writing. We worked on two reading sessions where he read two
short passages and answered questions related to them. Then I defined and
explained the uses of all of the vocabulary words that he had gotten wrong.
I’ve noticed that while he is very good at intensive reading, new vocabulary does
not come easily to him, and he understands the story better than individual
low-frequency words (which I think is better than the other way around). I
think from now on I will focus more on writing, speaking, and listening rather than
reading, since he seems to do fairly well in this respect. I was thinking of
incorporating new vocabulary words in exercises since he will not remember the
words if he does not use them. I recently gave him a small writing assignment
to write two sentences using the words that he had just learned. Next session I
will ask him to write the rough draft of an introductory paragraph using the
assigned words and edit it himself after I point out his mistakes. I am
thinking that Anka would benefit more from working on a portfolio since he will
be taking his TOEFL exam soon, and needs to strengthen his writing skills.
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