Leslie TS #3

Leslie TS #3 CIES Building 5/14/18 5-6 pm

Met with student at CIES. He said that he had done his tutor-assigned homework and it had been helpful. For example, he had befriended a Level 4 student and had a good conversation in English. He said a vocabulary word we had studied last session had been the topic of a reading comprehension test. That had enabled him to answer test questions correctly. This led to learning another word --  "coincidence." Student has studied English in school in China since age 6. He has a placement in graduate school at FSU. Even though he acknowledges he has much to learn in reading and writing, he wishes to use his tutoring time for listening and speaking, with him doing most of the speaking. He is open to all correction, but most conversational speaking errors are in pronunciation and word usage. He spoke at length about his home city in China, Chinese history, his schooling, his parents, his career goals, his cooking. He asks for specific or correct words or synonyms for some of the words he uses. We discuss the words I suggest, look up definitions, and listen to them on sound files. Then he uses these words in speaking. I offer new words for certain situations/events he talks about, such as "icicle," "traumatic," "mutton," introvert/extrovert." He checks dictionary and confirms that the words have his intended meaning. We discuss other new words this way.

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