This morning, I met again with my Hispanic student to go over the writing assignment from our last session. He completed his "How to Flirt" guide and we spent the entire hour going over it.
He had a lot of "beautiful mistakes." The most common trends were random commas and random capital/lowercase letters ( like "i, wANt TO, go, to tHe SToRE).
We first went over titles-how all words are not capitalized. We next went over basic rules of capitalization like "I" is always capitalized, capital letters do not belong in the middle of words, etc. I had him explain his reasoning for where he placed commas. He said he had learned that they should be before capital letters (so the incorrect words he had "randomly" capitalized), before words beginning with "w" or "h," and a lot of other things similar to this. He said he puts them wherever he "feels like it," not meaning intuition, but "because its for fun." I told him I would bring a sheet on comma rules for us to go over next time, but for now, don't place them where it is fun, place them where they should be. There were a few spelling and wrong word errors, but over all, it was fairly coherent to read (minus the strange commas and capital letters). He found it much more entertaining to write a piece such as this, so I will try to incorporate more of this into our remaining sessions. I think it he were to read more, he would get the hang of writing very quickly, but as he "hates reading," I'm not sure how much his writing skills will progress until he can back up this knowledge via textual experiences.
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