Date/Time: 15 May / 3:00 - 4:00PM
Location: Student Lounge @ CIES
Topic/Skill: Timed speaking
Feedback provided to tutee: My tutee initially
told me that she wanted to focus on reading comprehension so I had brought her
a practice passage with multiple choice questions. We had worked on half
together during our first session, and she finished the rest during today's
session with minimal issues. We went over the pronunciation of a few words, but
other than that, she answered all the comprehension questions correctly and
told me she found the text "somewhat" (i + 1!) challenging and would
like similar activities to work on -I had prepared another activity for her to
follow up on during our next meeting -but for the majority of this session, I
asked my tutee if she would like some speaking practice because she seemed to
speak, albeit completely understandable, quite slowly and carefully. According
to the directions of this particular activity I pulled from a TOEFL practice
website, she would have 15 seconds to read and plan an answer to a short
response question, and 45 seconds to speak (which apparently would be spoken
into a recording device if it was a part of a real TOEFL exam). I used my phone
as a timer to role-play this activity and tell her when time was up.
Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned:
We both ended up liking the
timed-speaking activity and practiced the same question several times. Although
she wasn't having comprehension/organizational issues in her answer, I felt she
could practice speaking more clearly and confidently. I noticed some minor
grammatical errors in her responses, so I asked her if she wouldn't mind
writing a response down for next week to see if the errors were mainly just due
to the time constraint. All in all, I learned that a student might not be
exactly aware of what they need to practice, and as a tutor, you might want to
try and help your tutee figure this out.
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