Date/Time: 9 June / 6:00 - 7:00PM
Location: Starbucks
Topic/Skill: Listening
Feedback provided to tutee: For this session
with my adult tutee, we decided to practice from the same TOEFL website we used
last session. Instead of listening, I went to the speaking subcategory to find
prompts to use. I would start the timer on my phone and give her 15 s to read
each prompt and 45 s to answer and I noticed her answers seemed to be
structured the same each time (e.g. first reason is…. Second reason is….) so I
encouraged her to break away from that and try to answer them as if she was
telling this to a friend rather than treat it so much like an exam, and that I
would correct grammar mistakes for her so she didn't have the same formatting
for every question.
Lesson(s) about tutoring
and/or the tutee you learned: Although Nanami understands grammar and
formulating "correct" responses, she is not very comfortable trying
out new approaches. I want to facilitate creative approaches to answer
questions but I need to remember that her purpose for studying English is
ultimately for the TOEFL exam and "correctness" is what she wants to
achieve.
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