(Soyoung)
Date/Time: August 19th, 2017; 8:00am
Location: Skype
Topic/Skill: Conversation Skills, Vocabulary
Feedback provided to tutee: During this session, Soyoung and I worked on pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary expansion.
Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: During this session, I learned that Soyoung also wants to master Chinese. She's taken a few classes in high school, but had the same problem she did when learning English in the Korean system-- they're was too great a focus on grammar and not enough on practical application. Some lessons about tutoring I learned: it's easier than I thought it would be to adapt the same lesson for different skill levels. For this session, I used the same overall lesson plan that I had prepared for Dojun (who is at a lower level), but just asked more complex questions and gave more "nitpicky" feedback. I ended up asking a lot of probing questions to get her to speak more, and in some ways ended up feeling sort of like a therapist, but I think that overall it was effective.
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