During my most recent session with Yujeong the new semester of CIES had just started. She moved up to Level 3 in every class except for Speaking, and is a little nervous. She knows that she is going to have a lot more intensive work and was definitely nervous about that. So, we spent some time talking about what she wants to improve by the end of the session. At the end of this session she leaves CIES to go back to South Korea, so this is really the home stretch for her.
Even though she is in Level 2, I think her speech is at a pretty good place. There is definitely room for improvement, of course, but it is not her main focus. She is definitely more concerned with writing. Out of every skill it is the one that is the hardest for her and does not come naturally.
She did not bring anything specific from school because the session had just started, so I thought going over basic and essential formatting of writing and essays would be good.
One of her main problems has always been organizing her thoughts, so I made a fake prompt -"Where do you want to vacation and why?" and we went from there.
We made an outline with topic sentences, relevant adjectives, and details about each of her topic sentences. I think visually making an outline was very beneficial. She has the tendency to get flustered or scatterbrained when she writes, so we went over the idea of outlining a lot. Making a visual outline of her writing helped her a lot, because it gave her a format to start from.
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