Tutoring Session #12
Feb 19th, 2015
19:30-20:30
Tonight’s session with Ahmed focused on more practical speaking
usages. He told me he had been having trouble understanding his roommate who
talks too quickly and is very hard to understand. I asked him about what was
hard to understand outside of the speed, and he responded that he talks
strangely. I modeled a few sentences using reduced forms for him and asked if
they were similar, to which he responded that they were. Because of this, I
decided to make this session about some basic reduced forms that he might find
helpful.
I borrowed some materials from the lesson plan I did on reduced
forms, including the list of common reduced forms and how to make them. Most of
our session was spend modeling and reiterating sentences in formal and reduced
English. I told him that is was more important at this point to be able to
understand reduced forms receptively rather than create them. Ahmed’s roommate
will understand if he speaks standard English, but Ahmed will not understand if
his roommate uses tons of nonstandard language.
I felt like this session was a lot more relaxed than many of my
other tutoring sessions; however, I think that was due to the topic matter.
Usually we’re talking about topics that my tutees are going to be tested on,
and they put a lot of weight on their grades. This session was a nice change of
pace from that.
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