It’s two days until David’s TOEFL exam, and we’re just now getting to other areas of the test! David told me today that his English teachers suggested he stay and continue with CIES a little longer before he TAs for chemistry, but of course, David’s impatience and self-confidence makes him determined to TA next semester. This session we did dictation. I would tell a longer story while David took notes and afterwards ask him questions about the main ideas. He did very well at this. I made the story up off the top of my head about what I did that day, he didn’t understand everything, but he definitely got the main points. I wish I could say the same for the dictocomp. I prepared a three sentence narrative for him to copy word-for-word. I tried to keep it straightforward although realistic for an adult to say. David gets stressed out by words he doesn’t know, and unfortunately his vocabulary is more limited than it appears when first speaking with him. I tried my best to explain vocabulary as best I could which lead to us practicing words that end in “t” which he evidently has trouble saying.
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