Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Keunhwa TS#11





Date/Time: Oct. 13/ 03:15~04:30
Location: CIES Rest Place

Topic/Skill: Contractions in English and Korean / speaking and listening
Feedback provided to tutor, Hannah: I’ve been studying English grammar, so I brought my book. I was surprised by that it explains the rules for pronunciation. I thought that grammar was for written English, not for spoken. There is a difference between English grammar books made in Korea and ones in the U.S.  A Korean grammar book for English intends to explain many thing but its purpose is just to give knowledge, whereas an American grammar book is likely to give many chances to use knowledge and give pronunciation rules as well.  After that, we studied Korean. I asked her the question in the book, took notes, and gave her a little advice.  We talked about Korean crowded subways which she felt more comfortable than buses because she would get motion sickness when she was on the backseats.

Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutor you learned: She struggled with using contraction in her Korean study book, so I showed my English grammar book. She pronounced them and explain the formality of them.  I had learned English by books, so I’ve had problem with spoken English. I mean, when I hear some sentences or words, I could not recognize them because I could match written English with spoken.  I told her that at the beginning it’d better to study written and spoken Korean.
 
 

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