Tessa TS #1

 

Student: Wei Wang

Date/Time: 10/23 4pm 

Location: Strozier Library 

Topic: We spent time getting to know each other and getting acquainted. She is practicing for the TOEFL exam, and wants to mainly practice speaking and listening. Each time we meet she is going to bring in practice sentences and paragraphs to practice reading aloud, and then I will read them and have her listen and repeat after me. 

Feedback provided to tutee: Since our session was very conversational, I would correct her pronunciation by repeating back to her the correct word. I was careful to distinguish between speaking incorrectly and simply having an accent. I also didn’t want to cut her off or interrupt her train of thought, so repeating the correct phrase back to her showed her I was listening as well as coaching her. For example, in telling a story she often mispronounced the word “imitate”, so by repeating the word back to her she was able to correct herself. 

Lessons about tutoring you learned: I learned to be adaptive and flexible depending on the needs of the student. I had some basic activities planned, but it turns out she was much more advanced than I thought, and already had an idea of what she wanted to work on. I was able to just move along with the session and come up with open ended questions to allow her to practice fluid speaking. 

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