Carlos and Marco met with me for our tutoring session
today. Serap couldn’t come. Her husband went back to Turkey because
his father had heart surgery. She
had to take care of their son. I
asked both of them about their level and group at CIES. When I put them on the board, we found
that Marco and Carlos were very similar in their level of English in writing,
grammar, reading, listening, and speaking. They both are 28 and 29, and it seems that they have so much
in common. One is from Peru and
the other one is from Brazil. By
looking at the group numbers that they are in for various subjects, it is
obvious that they both need to work a lot more on listening. The others are 2’s or 3’s and listening
is 1’s. Since out text states that
listening is 45% of all language learning and that listening ability can hinder
speaking, I told them of the importance of listening skill development. I encouraged them to be quicker in
their thinking and guessing. By
now, I already had an idea of the type of personalities that they both have. Their temperaments are calm. I think this keeps them from being
“quick” or “aggressive” in their learning.
We spent time in this session on listening and
speaking. I shared with them some
stories I chose from the internet.
I encouraged them to be very alert and quick to make guesses to fill in
gaps while I shared, and that they did not have to understand every word in my
stories. They just needed the gist
of what is said. I stopped from
time to time to see if they understood.
We had some discussions afterward.
During the discussion time, I helped them to correct themselves as much
as possible with verb tenses, prepositions, pronunciation, etc…
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