Caleb Dros TS#6


Today I met Ngoc at the CIES lounge for a session of tutoring. She didn’t have anything to practice so we went over some reading and pronunciation practice. Using the vowel rules that we learnt last week, I was able to explain and instruct her on how to recognize vowel sounds in words. I also allowed her to slow her reading down because she tends to go too fast and slur word sounds together. We did a first reading, identified the trouble words, then I explained the vowel rules, how to break down things by the syllables and put them back together. By the end of the exercise she read the passage much smoothly and much more easily than the first time. I’m not sure what professors recommend but I told her it’s better to go a slight bit slower with more correct pronunciation than too fast and slurring sounds and skipping over entire letters.

She seemed more encouraged by the end, so we will likely continue this path tomorrow. Once the article was smoothly read over and rules were reinforced, the session ended.

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