TUTORING PARTNER 10 – Dongsoek- Meeting 10
Today Dongsoek and I worked on speech patterns, an aspect which he said he was to be tackling, particularly in formal speech since it poses so many questions for him. Dongsoek had watched most of the various Youtube videos I had sent him two weeks ago, but happened to miss one, which presented a great opportunity to do a cold-transcription. We picked out a particularly fruitful piece from one of the videos and transcribed a small speech together. I gave him some time to rehearse how he would articulate the sentence in order to figure out what his tendencies are. Dongsoek has a tendency to read in a rather monotone manner, so we worked on accentuation worked together to find appropriate places to pause. He has good instincts, but needs a little bit more experimentation with speech patterns in order to attain the more natural sounding accent which he’s hoping for. By the end we had greatly improved his conceptualization of the piece, which now sounded more natural. His assignment for next week is to do the same on his own, which we will evaluate for overall coherence.
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