TS #6

This tutoring session with Sore was accompanied by Salah, for he was observing our tutoring session. It is actually very beneficial for myself and for Sore to have someone observing, for I am more aware and self-critical of my teaching and Sore thus gets a better tutoring experience. During this lesson I went over more pronunciation with Sore. This is Sore's problem area. Sore does very well in her grammar and writing classes, but pronunciation is different. It has always been difficult for her to pronounce words in English exactly as they are correctly pronounced. This time, I had a short reading passage that I printed out for Sore to read out loud to me. It also included some challenging yet level-appropriate new vocabulary words. Whenever she got to a word that she didn't know, we would go over the definition together and we would create sentences with the word. I would correct Sore whenever she pronounced something incorrectly, and she would write down those words so that she could study them later.