Sabrina Debrard TS#1

I had my first tutoring session with my adult tutee, Dasom, on January 21. We met at the library and introduced ourselves, and then talked a little bit about what she wanted out of the tutoring sessions. She mentioned that she has only recently arrived in America (within the past month or so) and that she predominantly wanted to work on her speaking skills. We ultimately decided to focus on a different skill each week after we discussed her skill levels in reading and writing (we also talked about how she felt in her CIES classes, where she mentioned she wasn't having any trouble). For the rest of that session we just worked on speaking--we glossed over different topics in our conversation including government/politics, weather, movies, and culture. Some of the topics had more advanced level words (I would say her skill is high-intermediate) so I had my laptop open to help describe some of these words so she would understand (one such word was 'impeach', which we ultimately ended up searching for the Korean translation for). I helped her with the pronunciation of some words she had trouble with and she noted any words she didn't know or recognize on her phone. We then discussed what we would do next week! It was great meeting and I tried to make her feel comfortable in speaking, as she admitted she was a little shy.