Leslie TS #7


Leslie TS #7 CIES Building 6/4/18 4-5 pm

I asked tutee if there were areas of his work that would be on his final exams that he had questions about or wanted to review. He said no. He seemed confident about written tests and said that he is much worse in speaking and listening. We continued to work on functional and social speech (dialogues and conversations) to focus on pronunciation difficulties. He talked about how he plays basketball. I made the analogy that in order to progress in basketball it is necessary to practice for hours on each skill. He made a list of some of his problem words and will practice pronunciation of each 30 times a day. He will record his speech and check against and mimic the pronunciation sound files on https://www.merriam-webster.com/
He said that he is not sure what to do sometimes when he is listening and does not understand someone. We talked about how and why some words he knows he does not know when some people speak them. I gave him an index card with questions that he can ask the speaker to check his understanding or have the speaker repeat or explain what was said.

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