Jeanette TS#1

Date/Time: 5/6/18 3:00pm - 4:45pm

Location: FSU/Oglesby Union

Topic/Skill: Needs Analysis/Skills Evaluation

Session: 1

Tutee: Sanghun Lee

Feedback provided to Tutee: Sanghun's speaking skills are good, great pronunciation. His vocabulary knowledge could use some work and his grammar needs improvement. His writing skills reflect his grammar issues, but his spelling is fairly decent. His listening skills are pretty good as well and he's quick to ask for help in understanding new words. His reading skills are also very good, I provided a short article to him and other than some vocab words he didn't seem to have any trouble.

Lesson's about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: I learned a lot about Sanghun. He told me about himself and his background. I found out that he's pursuing a career in law so I will try to bring in topics related to the legal system when tutoring. His motive is to pass the TOEIC is very extrinsic and if his future job is not international, then he does not plan on continuing to use English. I definitely need to take my own intensive course in grammar so I purchased some workbooks to help me relearn English Grammar.

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