Regina TS#13

Regina Sosinski - TS#13

Abdulrahman Al Habib

 

Date: August 16, 2017

Time: 6:30 - 7:30 pm

Location: Starbucks

 

Topic/skill: Composition, speaking

 

Abdulrahman asked me to read the essay he wrote for his final composition class assignment. The topic was to write about someone he looked up to, and it was titled "My Father." He wrote about the great respect and admiration he has for his father, how close they have always been, and how his father's continuous support and encouragement led Abdulrahman to come to the U.S. to learn English. His father is the person who motivates Abdulrahman to succeed. I was extremely impressed with his essay and told him so. It was well written and, with the exception of a few very minor errors, demonstrated great progress in his writing ability. He said he was moved up from group 2 to group 3 in all classes, and that it was probably because of our tutoring sessions that he got high grades. I thanked him, but told him it was really the result of his own efforts to learn and study, and by taking responsibility for his own practice. I think the most important role I played was merely creating a positive environment in which he could practice speaking English while engaging in genuine communication with someone who was interested in what he had to say.