In my most recent tutoring session with Youngseo, I worked on her pronunciation some more. She is really good at writing and sounding out words, but when she is speaking freely and telling me something about her day, she seems to jumble up her words and start speaking very quickly. I reminded her a few times to slow down when she was talking to me. This helped both her pronunciation and also the clarity of what she was saying. She seems to also get really excited when she is talking to me, which is good because it shows her confidence, but sometimes it just makes her talk to quickly. I am going to focus on slowing down her speaking rate over the next few sessions.
I also worked on pronunciation with words in the book. I would read one page very clearly and slowly and told her to carefully look at the words and how I said them. Then I would have read it back to me. We also did reading based on comprehension. It seems that compartmentalizing the comprehension and pronunciation aspects of readings helped her. Telling her exactly how to sound out a word and what it means is sometimes too much for her and she gets distracted. I think I will continue this method in our next sessions and I’m looking forward to seeing her progress.
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