Michelle TS #3 Mohammad

For my first tutoring session with Mohammad we discussed his personal language goals. It seemed hard for him to separate what he wanted to achieve in school with what he desired for himself. As I mentioned in a previous conversation partner blog, Mohammad never seemed particularly enthusiastic about learning English. This was completely fine, as it’s just realistic that people sometimes only begin to learn a new language because of familial influences, more job opportunities, or reasons other than “fun.” Mohammad was committed to improving his previous test scores for admittance into an American undergraduate program, so together we decided this would be our top priority for our sessions. I assessed his language level to be quite beginner. Although we could converse relatively easily, there were many times where we could not understand each other and would have to reword our sentences to get our message across.