Kailon TS #3

Today, I met with my second tutee named Amaury Toure. Due to the conflict in our schedules, we meet for 2 hours ( 2 tutoring sessions) every Friday at 12:30 pm. I actually met Amaury prior to our tutoring session in the class that I was observing today. Amaury is from Burkina Faso, and his first language is French. While speaking with him, I noticed that he is very shy and is afraid to make mistakes. I told him that he does not need to worry because not only is his English better than my French, but the purpose of the tutoring session is for me to help him improve in regards to fluency. During the first session, we gave each other an introduction and talked about our background history. While he spoke, I noted that he needs help with pronunciation and subject-verb agreement at times. However, I could understand him well. Most of what he told me was very logical, so, I was able to fill in the blanks for certain words that he was unfamiliar with in English. The first session actually went rather smoothly.