Vie Miller TS#7

Kubra wants to be a better English speaker. She wants to get an LLM, and she knows that a lawyer entering the LLM program must have a strong command of English--stronger than what (I’d guess) is expected from many of her classmates. I initially struggled to find the best way to help her “speak” English grammar correctly, but then it occurred to me: her understanding of grammar rules will be reflected in her writing as well as her speech! I quickly found an exercise online which asked Kubra to write the summary of a movie. After she was finished, I listened to her read the speech out loud and asked where she heard grammar mistakes. She made some corrections and handed her written summary to me. I proceeded to review it for further mistakes, and after I was done, I mentioned a few tense changes and misplaced articles to Kubra. I explained the problems as best I could--I am more familiar with verb tenses than determiners--and decided that next time, we would work on using determiners correctly while introducing some more complex verb tenses that Kubra is less familiar with but which would help her writing immensely.