TS #1 Jean

 July 2nd 

In person session 

Student Union

3:00-4:00PM


For my first TS I met with Miguel, a student at CIES from Cuba who has been studying English since April of 2024. Most of our meeting consisted of the needs assessment where I spoke at length with Miguel about where he wants to improve most.

Miguel is an advanced student in reading, writing, and listening, but considers himself closer to high intermediate in grammar and speaking. Naturally, that meant Miguel wanted to most help with improving his speaking and grammar in use. Specifically he identified gerunds and infinitives as a major place of confusion for him and requested more help with those grammar points. 

From our conversations I noticed Miguel was a very good "content speaker" as he knew a lot of vocab and ways to convey personal ideas and feelings incredibly well. However, I did find that he does need some more work on his technical ability as he would semi frequently misuse articles and verb tenses. Miguel himself seems to have a good grasp on this short coming though as he self identified it as the area he needs to improve the most.

Overall, I learned a lot about Miguel and where he wants to go on his English language learning journey and I look forward to our next meeting where we can begin to focus in on his areas of most desired improvement!


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