Cynthia Deer TS #1

 Today I met with Je-Ah a 10-year-old Korean girl. During our first tutoring session, I performed the need assessment by asking her certain questions. I asked her directly what she wanted to improve on but it seemed like it was difficult for her to comprehend what I was saying. When I broke it down to simpler sentences like "Do you like princesses? " I started to get somewhere. I found out Je-Ah likes many Disney princesses especially Elsa from Frozen. From there I started getting ideas of how to incorporate her love for princesses into learning English. I found communicating with her using my hands and acting the word out helped her understand. I was also able to do a grammar lesson using pronouns. I pulled up an image of Frozen characters and explained to her how pronouns are another way to address someone without their name. I pointed to a character and asked her to use a pronoun: he/she/it to each character. Then we made short sentences using their pronoun for example: (Je-Ah  said  Elsa is she and made a sentence: she is singing). Doing this short activity let me see what level of speaking, listening, and form sentences she has. Overall, from my assessment, I would say Je-Ah is a beginner with a strong vocally with a good listening ear.


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