FSU TEFL 120 2024, Fall 2

Tutoring session #19: December 11 3pm Location: Student Union Topic/Skill: Networking in academic spaces Feedback provided to the tutee: First I created a transcript with highlights for the student to read with  two people in a networking situation, discussing their goals and prior experience. The feedback I provided was pointing out why those words highlighted  are important as they were vocabulary words such as position, internship, studied etc. Then I asked comprehension questions. Then we practiced a role play activity where we practiced me being a professor and him asking them to work on research. The feedback I provided him was immediate grammar correction and offering more higher level vocabulary.  Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: The lesson I learned was the importance of pronunciation focus. As Miguel really wants to start researching at Florida State I was more than happy to ease his concerns about not appearing professional due to his acce...

  Tutoring session #18: December 9 4pm Location: Student Union Topic/skill: Debate Feedback provided to the tutee: In this session we did a speaking exercise focusing on debate. This consisted of open discussion that followed some linguistic support. This included a document where I showed him different transition words and common words to increase credibility such as, “I believe”, “According to” and so forth. The feedback I provided was only when it would improve the clarity of his argument, less grammar and more the structure of his arguments. We debated over politics as well as our different cultures. And I also gave him model sentences he and a structure he should follow when producing responses which is how I was able to correct him.  Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: Lessons about tutoring that I learned was trying to find when was the right time to have a teaching moment and point out any errors especially when the conversation really got going. I f...

  Tutoring session #17: December 8 3pm Location: Student Union Topic/skill: Listening comprehension in casual conversation Feedback provided to the tutee: This session we also conducted a dictionary comp exercise but from casual conversation. I recorded a conversation with my friend ahead of time of us talking about how we are studying for finals week and our plans for winter break. The feedback I provided was first some vocabulary and linguistic support then we went through and made sure he caught all of the words and I asked him a general comprehension question. Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: Lessons about the tutee that I learned is that the repetition definitely does help as well as the fill in the blank as what he still struggles with is minimal pairs and hearing the differences between certain words. However he still can comprehend a lot through context clues but it’s important he learns to decipher minimal pairs and their meanings.

  Tutoring session #16 : December 6 Location: CIES Topic/Skill: Listening comprehension for academic listening Feedback provided to the tutee: Last session Miguel had expressed to me that despite his improvement with casual speaking he has seen that hsi listening had not improved. Therefore I arranged a dicto comp exercise with “Try something new for 30 days” by Matt Cutts. The feedback provided was after playing the video multiple times he filled out a fill in the blank worksheet. Then I checked he got the right and we went over the meanings of some of the key words. Then afterwards I asked him comprehension questions.  Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: Lessons I learned from this was how important repetition is when it comes to listening comprehension. Moreover he learned important markers to look out for to understand a long passage. I also learned how important it is to review important vocabulary before hand.

  Tutoring session #14 & 15: December 6 Date/Time: Friday December 6 3pm Location: CIES Topic/Skill: Exam review practice and complex prepositions and adverbial phrases Feedback provided to the tutee: Although his exam has passed we still reviewed the second half portion of the exam review that I prepared for him as homework the previous lesson. This included many exercises borrowed front textbooks that included the present continuous, future continuous, ad gerunds and infinitives. The feedback was immediate and then I explained any errors he had and explained why they were wrong. Then we did a through revision of the last things he learned at CIEs which were complex prepositions and adverbial phrases, this was done with a lot of visual support such as pictures and videos.  Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: Feedback I learned from the tutee is he responded very well to the worksheet provided as it allows him to test his comprehension of grammar knowled...

Student: Do-jun Kim Date/Time: December 17, 9:00-10:00 Location: Virtual/Zoom Topic: Homework reading review, Final Speaking lesson Feedback provided to the tutee: We spent the beginning of the class going over his essay from the previous lesson that he did for homework. I made corrections to his writing in his paragraph, and we went in-depth on why those corrections were necessary. He asked me several questions on the use of commas and grammatical errors. It was our last session, so we had a speaking debate for the back half of the class where he organized a side, and as he was speaking, I gave him corrections as we were going because I found it easier for him to correct his mistakes as he continued. Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: He learned more about how to speak in a more formal setting like a debate. He definitely is stronger in more casual conversation because as the debate went on and we were arguing sides, it became more of a natural discussion on th...