Tutoring Ayni

On Thursday I met with Ayni from 3-4 to tutor her as usual. She wanted me to read over one of her papers that she wrote in class. Her errors were the still the same as I mentioned before, but now if I point to a word that is misplaced, non-existent, or incorrect she will usually correct it on her own. This tutoring session was a bit different than previous ones with her. Ayni became very frustrated with speaking English and just wanted to speak for a while instead of going over her written work. I told her that the best way to improve her speaking skills is to practice. I suggested that we just casually talk for the remainder of our tutoring session. She liked that idea. I thought we should talk about a subject that she is very familiar with first, so we talked about where she is from (Turkey). I asked her 100000 questions and she was able to give me an answer for each one. I was impressed! Whenever she would say a sentence with grammar errors, I would correct her through rephrasing what she had said into a question with the correct grammar structure. Ayni picked up on it and responded well to the corrections. She decided that maybe on Tuesdays we should work on writing and on Thursdays work on speaking.