My next tutoring session was with a new partner, Jiyeon, from South Korea. We met at the library and she told me that her husband is in grad school at FSU and they have a 7-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son. Immediately working with her intrigued me- she isn’t trying to pass the TOEFL or get into a university, she is living here and is learning for communication purposes, so we discussed her current studies. Jiyeon takes 3 classes at the Center: grammar, composition, and reading- so she is most eager, as I expected, to spend our time working on speaking and listening skills. I showed her a few resources we might use in our sessions, including one of the NPR Storycorps, and happened to find one about a mother and daughter. Overall my plan for Jiyeon’s sessions is to focus on conversational speaking and pronunciation, as well as working in idioms and common slang to better her understanding of the type of everyday language she struggles with currently.
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