Marina TP 2

Last Wednesday I met with Dongsoek and Jia, the new tutoring partner that was assigned to me. She is also from South Korea and friendly with Dongsoek so throughout our tutoring session they were both helping each other out either with understanding the word, something that I was trying to explain, or pronunciation.

Since I already met with Dongsoek before so I know that he needs help on speaking, listening, and pronunciation. Jia has a similar problem only she needs help with vocabulary and grammar more but both of them need more work on pronouncing words better.

So I started the lesson by asking them if they needed help on anything. Jia said she was doing a presentation and had trouble saying a few words so I told her to present it to me and if anything I would correct her on it.

Meanwhile, Dongsoek was reading a story and also underlined words he either did not know the meaning of or pronunciation so I helped them both. I didn't realize how tough it is to teach pronunciation until that lesson, especially attempting to explain the difference between "fill" and "feel". Dongsoek caught on quicker but Jia still had trouble with them.

After, I said that we should all practice speaking so we had a conversation for a few minutes and they really liked that they both got to practice speaking.

I think from now on, I will tutor them both at the same time rather than separately because they seem to do a good job explaining things, either in English or Korean that either one of them does not understand.