Date/Time: 13 July / 3:15 - 4:45PM
Location: Catalina Café
Topic/Skill: Article review / special cases + exceptions
Feedback provided to tutee: Dasom and I
continued to practice using articles. I brought 2 worksheets which each had a
paragraph where she had to decide if different areas needed either a definite
or indefinite article, or no article. Our first 10 minutes was spent reviewing
what we went over our last session, and then I gave her 10 minutes for each
article worksheet. I asked her to explain her answers after she finished. Then,
I decided that we focus on special rules and exceptions for the remaining time.
I put together several examples of special cases that I found using Swan's
Practical English Usage, and on a separate page I organized practice sentences
that we could work on that correlated with the rules so she could refer back to
them much easier than before.
Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned:
I have learned that what seems to be a simple concept to a native
speaker, like articles, may not be as simple to an ESL student - more
specifically, how beneficial it is to understand the language of your host
country beforehand so you understand why this is. My tutee is Korean, and so I
have learned that articles are particularly troublesome to her. One should
never assume what is going to the most difficult part. I was surprised by what
seemed intuitive to me, was not making sense for her, and I had to be patient
and try different ways of explaining the same thing. Even though this is
technically our last session, Dasom asked that we meet again and since I will
be in town for most of the summer anyway, I am more than happy to meet with her
when I can as it helps us both (:
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