Tyler-TP12

I met with Tugba today after Cies classes to help her study for some of her assignments. The material she was working with consisted of mostly reading and vocabulary words. I read the worksheets she had with her and we began to go over them. In order to complete the work, the vocabulary words given from the story had to be used in a sentence. I had Tugba write the first sentence on her own. She had the general idea right, and used the word correctly, but seemed to have some trouble with her tenses. I explained to her what the problems were, and demonstrated what the correct tenses were. Tugba seems to have a very good grasp on most of her vocabulary, but like many other foreign students she has trouble with tenses. This is understandable because English doesn't always follow its own rules, so many specific word uses must be simply memorized.