Julia Smith TS #1

On January 19, I met with Dojun Kim for our first tutoring session. We will have all of our sessions over Skype, since he is living in South Korea. We had the session at 9:00 am Tallahassee time, which was 11:00 pm for Dojun, but he was very helpful in scheduling the time with the time difference. I used the session mostly to measure Dojun's English level, and I used some of the suggested questions from the Tutoring Session handout. I had prepared a few activities in advance in case we had extra time, but we had plenty to talk about during our session. I asked Dojun which aspect of his English that he wanted to most improve, and he told me that he wanted to enhance his listening skills, and also expand his vocabulary. Because of the decreased sound quality over Skype, it will be a challenge to incorporate listening components, but I have been researching additional resources online for listening activities. I expect vocabulary to be easier to include in the lessons, but I anticipate the main challenge to be in the selection of vocabulary words to teach. Meeting with Dojun was a delight as he seems eager to learn more English, and I look forward to the opportunity to work with him.