Ally Corlett TS #3

I met Jang-Yeol on June 9thin the CIES lounge. I prepared a list of academic vocabulary words for us to look over together. Jang-Yeol requested these words because he is nervous about the academic language that will be used in classes for his major. He’s also nervous about presenting in his classes. I also shared a few English-learning apps with Jang-Yeol. I suggested that he watch tv and Netflix in English with English subtitles. That way, if he doesn’t understand certain words or phrases, he can physically see how they are spelt and used in a sentence, while still hearing pronunciation and context. I learned a lot this tutoring session. I expected to have Jang-Yeol and I to be able to role play and create sentences with the academic words I brought. However, when it came time to actually do this, I had a hard time actually doing the scenarios with Jang-Yeol because the academic words didn’t fit naturally. It was also hard for us to come up with sentences together because Jang-Yeol was unfamiliar with most of the words. From this, I learned that I should come up with the scenarios first and make a list of academic and advanced vocabulary words that fit with them, along with somewhat difficult high frequency words that Jang-Yeol might be familiar with or that he needs to know because he will definitely come across them. 

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