Brieara TS #5

Date/Time: July 10th @4pm w/ YeonHee

Location: FAMU/FSU Engineering

Topic: Reading and Speaking

Summary: In this session, I had YeonHee read aloud an old essay of mine from 2020 that I wrote for class. This essay was for a grade and it was a personal reflection for the end of my Spanish class. I thought it would be good practice to read an essay that wasn't research or factual style but was more informal mixed with formal which how I feel most people talk anyways. We found some words and phrases she had questions with like "granted (transitionary), admittedly, glided, and inquisitive" for example. I tried to see if she could use context clues to figure some of them by reviewing the sentences before, after, and what I was saying in the sentence the word was in as well. This method did work for some but not all and it was good for me to practice figuring out other ways to explain words rather than using the dictionary explanation. At the end of class, I gave her the list of vocabulary words we had accumulated over the past week and I gave her a new writing prompt for her to show me on Friday. I asked that she try to use a minimum of 5 of the new vocabulary words and there were about 10 total. We will go over it together in our next session! 

Before we left, I asked her how she liked the tutoring so far and how it compared to her other tutoring sessions. She said that she liked our tutoring sessions because we focus on the things that she wants to become better at like speaking and writing, but in her other tutoring sessions they would do a lot of worksheets that the tutor would prepare beforehand and they wouldn't much. I will keep working on listening to her needs and having a student-centered learning space!

Lessons Learned: I forgot about the Merriam dictionary for english learners and will try to utilize that more next time rather than just searching on Google for definitions. I also learned that it is important to listen to what your tutee wants because it will further motivate them to learn more!

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