Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Tutoring
I have tutored twice now. The first time was last week on Wednesday from 5-6 at the Global and Multicultural Center. There were three people there- two from South Korea and one from Ukraine. We basically just got to know each other during that session. They all did well in conversation from what I observed. When I asked what they wanted to work on, they couldn't tell me. So today I went in and there only was one person from last week and one new person also from South Korea. Again I asked Hyejin what she specifically wanted to work on in the future. She said everything, but mainly listening and speaking. She said that she doesn't understand when people talk fast or make jokes. I thought I could bring in some music that would be appropriate for her to listen to and have to try and guess the lyrics. Sungsuh wanted to focus more on just speaking. He is trying to prepare for a job interview in Korea, but he said that they interview job applicants in English. I thought I could set up and a mock job interview and interview him. He liked the idea of that. I will begin to tutor Mecit at CIES next Tuesday and look forward to meeting him!
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Looks like you are getting a good variety of experiences! The FSU Career Center has a lot of good resources on interviewing on their website. If you can, record their speech to give feedback and so he/she can analyze their errors.
ReplyDeleteFor me, it seems like Hyejinreally wants practice with normal conversational speech. The girl I tutor at the library on Saturdays is the same way, so we do some really broad activities, like today I brought in a Glamour magazine and we spent 15 minutes just flipping through it, reading horoscopes and taking quizzes. Another week I printed up a bunch of strange photos from the internet and made her guess what was happening in the photos. This gets them talking casually without feeling like there is pressure.
ReplyDeleteGoing through the Glamor magazine was a really cool idea. I can see how that would make things much more casual.
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