Alexa TS#1 A

Date/Time: August 29^th, 2016; 3:00pm-4:00pm

Location: CIES building/walking around campus

Topic/Skill: Background, goals for tutoring, goals for the CIES program, goals when returning to Korea

Feedback provided to tutee: Choose some grammar topics that you would like to review for next week.

Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: 

I spent the first session of tutoring with Seo Yeon getting to know her and some of her goals for the semester. One of the first questions I asked after a general introduction was what she wanted to focus on during tutoring. Seo Yeon really wanted to work on grammar and speaking skills. Because it was only the second day of classes for the CIES students Seo Yeon didn’t have any specific tutoring questions, she was more interesting in learning about Tallahassee and FSU. I decided to take her on a walking tour of the campus and show her some new things. After the walking tour we were able to sit down and talk for a little bit about what its like to move form South Korea to the United States. It was interesting to see how she would stop and think for a second about how to correctly structure a sentence before speaking. Overall she was very smooth in her speaking with only some difficulty pronouncing and understanding words that were new to her. Next week I plan to evaluate Seo Yeon grammar level by having her complete some worksheets to better understand exactly what grammar level she is at.