Alyssa B - TS #15 - Yao

Tutoring Session 15

Date: August 2, 2017
Time: 4:10pm – 5:35pm
Area: CIES Student Lounge
Tutee: Yao Wang
Level: ACES

Today we went over more SPEAK practice tests, as usual. We’ve been doing a new one every session, and I think she’s improving a bit. I’m still trying to get her to act more calmly! She always seems so pent up, but her reactions are funny when she realizes that she messes up. That’s good though, that she recognizes her own mistakes and quickly corrects them.

              We also worked on her pronunciation today. The “feel,” “fell,” and “fail” practices are…kind of getting somewhere. ^^; So, we’ve recorded me saying it, as well as her, just so she can listen and practice it on her own. We tried to go over the different speech movements when saying “ale” and “ell” to help her. If you do it yourself, it’s noticeable that for “ale” your tongue gets slightly more pointed, and with “ell” the tongue remains more flat and forward. Hopefully that’ll help! (She’s got “feel” down well enough.”

~Alyssa