Christiana TS #5

Date/Time: May 31, 2017; 3:00-4:00 P.M.
Location: Starbucks on West Tennessee Street  
Topic: Reading 
Cultural and/or linguistic topics you and your partner learned: Reading comprehension, we both learned about Dementia, diet pills & robocops.

Today I met with Jiwon for the 2nd time, I picked her up at CIES after class was over and we drove to the Starbucks on Tennessee where we got snacks and settled in. Last meeting we decided we would work on reading, which happens to be Jiwon's least favorite subject in English. We talked about our weekends and her day off while I opened up the breaking news english website that my other tutee, Saeed, had told me about in one of our first sessions. I set it to level 3 and told Jiwon to select the article that she would like to read and she chose an article about RoboCops in Dubai. We each read the article to ourselves and she stopped to ask me about the vocabulary and concepts that she was unsure of. I wrote these words down and gave her definitions and examples for each and then I had her answer some reading comprehension questions to make sure she was understanding what she was reading. We went through this with three different news articles that Jiwon picked out, this boosted her intrinsic motivation because she was using English to learn something that was interesting to her. She told me that she really enjoyed this tutoring session and thanked me because it got her to read which she usually wouldn't do. I felt very good about our session because she seemed to really enjoy picking and reading the articles and maybe she'll even use them to practice reading on her own!