Julia Smith TS #4

Today, January 30, I met with Salem for the second time. I had a reading lesson prepared for him, but I helped him with one of his writing assignments, which took up the entire session. I was slightly surprised by his writing, based on my prediction of how it would be based on his speech. There were more grammatical errors than I had expected, and punctuation errors as well. I understood more of why there were punctuation and capitalization errors because of the great difference between these rules and those of Arabic. He asked me to help him with errors that the teacher had pointed out, and I prompted him in the best way that I could without just giving him the correction. For example, there were a few instances where he was missing the verb in the sentence, and I would tell him "You are missing something in this sentence" and ask "What do you think is missing, subject, verb etc.?". His writing was about exercise, so I told him about the group fitness classes at the gym on campus in which he seemed interested. He seemed interested in learning about his mistakes because he would ask "Why?" for many of his errors, and he was thankful for my help.