Composition, Speaking, Listening, Ambiguity Tolerance
Today was very good session for HeeLee and I, it was very productive. I asked her to fill out a "Needs Assessment" that I had made up for her, so that I can gauge how well I am doing as her tutor and also what things she would like to work on during this next session so she can get the most out of our time together. More and more now during our session HeeLee will say something that has to do with something I have just learned in my classes and today when we were talking about her "Needs Assessment" she told me that while she is listening in class she might not hear or understand every word that her teacher says so she has to put the pieces together and guess what her teacher was saying. She said sometimes she gets it right, but sometimes she gets it wrong. I believe this is called "Ambiguity Tolerance" and told her that's how everyone listens and comprehends things, even in our first languages. So she doesn't need to get discouraged and she is actually doing it right, put the pieces together and figure out what the speaker is trying to say. Next, we edited a piece of writing she had done in her composition class, and I got to talk to her a little about self-editing. The last thing we did was HeeLee read a few paragraphs out loud from an assignment in her reading class and I corrected her mispronunciations. She is sounding more confident with her English and I made sure to tell her that. She still has a lot of work to do in order to get her fluency down, but I am looking forward to working on this with her.
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