TS #9

This tutoring session with Sore was particularly enjoyable. We met at the CIES lounge, for it of course was easy for us to do so. Sore had come prepared again with material for us to go over. She brought a couple of vocabulary worksheets and notes from her class. Sore is really interested in bettering her vocabulary and pronunciation, so for this session we focused on that. I would again listen to her while she read some sample sentences or short paragraphs, correct her pronunciation, and then go over new sample sentences with words that she had pronounced incorrectly. We would also try to create some new sentences with the new vocabulary words that she had learned. Again, this session was very casual and more conversational, for I feel that this is beginning to become my tutoring style. I always thought that the best way to learn how to have real conversations with others in a foreign language was to learn how to speak that language in a conversational, casual way. And when specific problems arise like with grammar, then those will be corrected along the way. Sore and I always enjoy our time together, and she seems to be grasping new vocabulary and pronunciation.