New challenge:
A Brazilian student. A doctor who specialises in Developing countries diseases.
I've done a bit of reseach to see what may be the problems Portuguese face when learning English as a foreign language and the truth be told, they are pretty much the same as those of Spanish, both language being of Romance origin.
So, I'll find out whether she aims at fluency over accuracy and proceed accordingly.
Yet, as one of my main concerns with my learners is about pronunciation as a two-way thing: better awareness of sounds means better undersdanding as well as production- I'll have to explore this in this Brazilian L1 context and find out how aware she is of that and what her previous experience is.
http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/pronunciation.html