Date/Time: Sunday, October 9th, 3pm.
Location: Urban Food Market - Centre of Tallahassee, Monroe St.
Topic/Skill: Speaking
For our last meeting, Soongyu and I went to the Urban Food Center to have our final guided conversation. We sampled some gelato and sat down to discuss her experiences at CIES, her expectations for the upcoming session, her home city in Jeonju, and how she can continue to improve her speaking skills. We went over some of the advice picked up through my TEFL studies on how speaking as much as possible will help, including speaking with other students who are learning English. I know that it can be hard for students to accept that this can help since they don't want to reinforce each other's ELL mistakes, but hopefully Soongyu will not worry too much about that and simply embrace the opportunity for practice. She has a very healthy view of the TOEFL: that she will do her best, and prepare as best she can, but is not going to put an inordinate amount of pressure on herself about it.
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