Monday, September 28, 2015

Keunhwa TS#7


Date/Time: Sep. 21/ 03:00~04:00

Location: LeLoy Collins Main Library

Topic/Skill: Revising and Ben Franklin practice/ Writing and speaking

Feedback provided to tutor, Neila : I brought my three classroom observation blogs and she revised them.  She changed my sentences into simple but easier to understand, so I felt that her editing was similar to a stroke of a professional artist. 

And then I showed her Ben Franklin practice which I had been working on over this weekend.  She was interested in it, too.  She read a dialog with word stresses and intonation, and I marked them with some symbols.

Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned:  I had a lot of practical lesson from her.  First, I should capitalize the first letter of all words after a colon. Second, ‘barely’ should be put before a verb.  Third, feedback is an uncountable word, because it has a lot of responses in it.  Forth, ‘in 3 separate groups’ is more understandable than ‘divided into 3 small groups’.

In American English, Every sentence has content and function words. I should stress the latter to sound natural.  Like Korean, I should pronounce linking sounds smoothly.  Pronouncing linking sounds and stressed words seemed evident and clear to Americans, but I have no choice but to learn rules of pronunciation like grammar.  I think that I should learn and teach how to pronounce more naturally to communicate each other.

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