Date and Time: 4/25/16 7-8PM
Location: Leon County Public Library main branch
Topic/ Skill: prosody and vocabulary through Jokes!
Feedback provided to tutee: greater fluency is needed to achieve the precise timing while telling jokes in English, but he generally has good enough flow to tell jokes adequately. He also needs to look up or ask for words instead of translating Cantonese words directly (half-deaf does not exactly mean deaf in one ear as intended).
Lessons about tutoring/tutee learned: with adult students in a one-on-one setting let their passions guide their inquiry, this means the tutor must take a step back and let the tutee take a role in choosing the topics for lessons. This session reinforced the lesson that the meaningful correction of output is the most efficient and durable way of teaching both vocabulary, grammar and the social environment of native English speakers. It also must be frustrating to be so good at being funny in your native language but attempts in your second language fall flat, a significant part of your identity has to feel ripped away.
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