For the third session with Yuma we practiced speaking/timed
speaking. To start I gave him a topic that I found from a TOEFL website, since
he wanted to better prepare himself specifically for the test. The first topic
was about someone he admired and why. The prompt also asked him to name
qualities about this person that made him or her admirable. When we started
timing during the brainstorming/prewriting process, he seemed to get a little
nervous. I suggested that for the first prompt we not time it and he was able
to prepare his thought process a lot better. He wrote down a quick outline of
what he was going to speak about, because that’s what they allow on the TOEFL
test. He spoke about his father and said that he admired him because he was
honest and hardworking. He had a few grammatical errors when he spoke so I corrected
him and had him write them down. He still needed to get the timing right, but I
figured we would focus on that after he got more comfortable with speaking and
fixed the errors he was making.
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