Alycia TS#16
Date/Time: 2018/6/29 6:30AM - 7:30AM
Location: Skype
Topic/Skill: Speaking and Listening
Summary and Feedback:
ITMHTN Episode - N/A
I cannot lie, this is so sad for me. I have so truly enjoyed tutoring Dojun these past several weeks and I am going to miss our tutoring sessions. That being said, Dojun threw me a curve-ball today and selected an episode of our normal podcast that was not like every other one. We ended up having to not use this episode because it was too complicated (and also kind of depressing because of the topic). We ended up having a guided conversation about food and culture and how American foods and food companies that are in Korea are so different than how they are in America.
We then spent the last half hour giving him a final assessment of his skills and myself a teaching evaluation. I asked him how he felt about our sessions and if he thinks that they have helped him at all. He said that, though not really a big difference, he has found that the episodes are becoming easier to generally understand. I told him that, though we have been working through this exercise for a little while now, the changes in ability are harder to detect at his advanced level because he isn't really learning a new skill but is rather just fine-tuning an existing one. I have encouraged him to continue to listen to English recordings like this podcast that are intended for native speakers because listening to the heavily moderated ones for esl people will not really help him much at this point.
Dojun also gave be a brief evaluation, saying that I was helpful to him because I explained things clearly and always enunciated so I was easy for him to understand. He also mentioned that he seems to find female English speakers are more easy to understand than male speakers. I wonder if this has something to do with the differences in tone or if, in general, women naturally enunciate more clearly.
I think that Dojun will continue to excel in his English speaking abilities and any CIES tutor who gets to work with him after me is so lucky because he really is a dedicated student who actually enjoys learning the language.
We then spent the last half hour giving him a final assessment of his skills and myself a teaching evaluation. I asked him how he felt about our sessions and if he thinks that they have helped him at all. He said that, though not really a big difference, he has found that the episodes are becoming easier to generally understand. I told him that, though we have been working through this exercise for a little while now, the changes in ability are harder to detect at his advanced level because he isn't really learning a new skill but is rather just fine-tuning an existing one. I have encouraged him to continue to listen to English recordings like this podcast that are intended for native speakers because listening to the heavily moderated ones for esl people will not really help him much at this point.
Dojun also gave be a brief evaluation, saying that I was helpful to him because I explained things clearly and always enunciated so I was easy for him to understand. He also mentioned that he seems to find female English speakers are more easy to understand than male speakers. I wonder if this has something to do with the differences in tone or if, in general, women naturally enunciate more clearly.
I think that Dojun will continue to excel in his English speaking abilities and any CIES tutor who gets to work with him after me is so lucky because he really is a dedicated student who actually enjoys learning the language.
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