Tutoring Session 06/09/26 (Anna & Fadia)

 Date/Time: Tuesday, June 9th, 2:00-3:15 PM

Location: FSU Student Union


Topic/Skill: Casual Conversation (Productive Skills) and University Search.


Feedback provided to the tutee: As this was a more casual session, I focused on correcting my tutee's pronunciation any time she incorrectly pronounced words or phrases. If my tutee raised questions about grammar structure or vocabulary during conversation, I encouraged her to think back to the previous lesson and answered them when necessary. However, I mostly focused on pronunciation-centric feedback during this lesson, which included the recasting technique in which I repeated the correct pronunciation of the term/phrase that my tutee incorrectly pronounced in my own reply. This method allows the tutee to identify their own errors somewhat and hear the term/phrase correctly used and pronounced.


Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: I learned from this lesson that it is very important to address your tutee/students' extrinsic motivators frequently, as it demonstrates to them that you truly care about them and their progress. My tutee's main extrinsic motivator is that she is receiving a degree at an American university. However, she must abruptly find a different university to attend, which, as she mentioned to me, can be a very stressful situation. For this reason, I felt that it was pertinent and an effective use of both our time to jointly analyze university options together rather than doing a more academic lesson. My tutee was still able to practice casual conversational speaking skills and improve her low-frequency, university-related vocabulary knowledge, while being reassured that I care about her apart from just assessing her English abilities.

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