Tutoring Session #16
Feb 27th, 2015
This Saturday, my session with Jun focused on a “mid-term” analysis
and diagnostic. I did another needs analysis just to reassess his school and
study situation. He has quite a lot of workbooks to work on writing, but I’m
not sure how much these focus on longer writing assignments, as the ones I
remember from childhood did not — rather, they were heavy on more complex
grammar usage in shorter writing.
Because much of
our usual lessons focus on speaking and reading, I focused diagnostics on
writing. Believe it or not, just because Skyping allows for keyboard usage,
it’s not the most helpful when trying to have a tutoring session for writing
(There are actually quite a few setbacks to tutoring this way, I have found). I
wanted to try a bit of an out of the norm writing diagnostic that would make
Jun think a little harder, as well as test to see his comfort with using
vocabulary outside the norm. The topic was to write about The Great Depression,
since this was a subject that we discussed in detail in a previous session. I
asked him to write about what The Great Depression was, how it affected people
in America, and why it is important to know about. It didn’t have to be very
long, and I only gave him a seven-minute time limit.
In the end, I
think he did rather well. Most of the errors he immediately corrected when I
pointed them out and were mainly a result of trying to type quickly. His final
sentence was the most entertaining: “We should remember The Great Depression, because
you shouldn’t trust Wall Street.”
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