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TS Final Victoria Jones

Tutoring Session #11-16 Date: Spring 2018 Topic/Skill: IMC Program At the end of the fall semester, my fall conversation partner Ailin, reached out to me about her acceptance into the IMC Master’s program. I am currently a second semester student in the IMC program. This truly has made this tutoring and conversation partner experience come together because I can now help Ailin apply her English skills to the classroom. For the spring 2018 semester, we both share a Research Methods course. Ailin expressed her anxiety about the lecture style course. Our professor is 70 years old and typically speaks in a lower tone of voice. Additionally, he is from Kentucky and has a relatively strong southern accent. Since the start of the semester I have compared my notes with Ailin’s to fill in any gaps of confusion she may have. While the professor has a powerpoint slide during lectures, his style of teaching requires intense auditory listening. I even find it difficult...
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Victoria Jones CP #6

Conversation Partner #6: Nguyen Date: November 10, 2017 Location: Virtual VoiceThread                                             Topics Discussed: I recently uploaded my who am I video to group 7 in Ramin’s cultural voicethread program. I really enjoyed deciding which photos to upload and what to talk about in the brief amount of time I had for the comment/audio portion.  I received comments back from a few of the students and one of the students was particularly interested in Siesta Key Beach, one of the most famous beaches in the US where I grew up. I created a different video including photos of dolphins, parasailing, and the famous sand castle competition that takes place at Siesta each November. Cultural/Linguistic Topics Learned: ...
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Final Tutoring Session - Ryan Milejczak

(Note: I had skipped #2 in the succession of tutoring sessions, so this I suppose takes the place of that missing entry) Date: November 8th, 2017 Location: Sabal Palm Elementary Student: Jaques Kilozo Did my usual exercise with Jaques, wherein we went to the library, and I read him a book while he repeated after me. Today's book was "The Diggin-est Dog," which he seemed familiar with. As young as Jaques is (I'm not sure his exact age, but he's in first grade, so I assume he's about 6 or so), progress is a bit hard to track, but he seems to be coming along as far as his confidence in speaking. That, or he's simply more comfortable around me. Either way, he's gotten increasingly chatty, frequently diverting from the book to point at pictures, ask questions, and just generally say the silly things that 6 year olds do. I've also been trying to have him repeat longer strings of words; I had originally only read one or two words before having...
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CP #6 Ryan Milejczak

Date: October 24 Location: The Internet Topics discussed: About me Set up my Voicethread and began by making my about me video. Surprisingly challenging, both because I had some hiccups getting set up in Voicethread, but also because talking about yourself can be difficult. Also, I do not have many pictures of myself or my life, for whatever reason. Still got it set up, and got to enjoy a ton of comments from the students in Vietnam. A bunch of them complimented my cat, which I love, and a few asked questions of me, which I hope to respond to soon (unfortunately, at the present moment i can only get on Voicethread and actually make any comments by borrowing somebody else's computer). Ramin also had some great tips for me for improving my Voicethreads, noting that I should have more pictures to help give context to vocabulary, such as "oranges" or "saxophone". From there I went to comment on the Voicethreads for my group. As had been mentioned in, I believe,...
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CP#5 Ryan Milejczak

Date/Time: November 5 th , 5pm-6pm Location: Black Dog on The Square Topic discussed: Religion, Culture, Language Cultural and/or linguistic topics you and your partner learned: Met up with Max/ Mubarak for coffee at Black Dog. As always, I 'm surprised a nd impressed with the level of Max's English skills, and I find it almost hard to beli eve he hasn't been studying it longer. Complimented him on his English skills, which lead to us talking about learning languages, and how hard it can be. This lead to a discussion on regional differences in l anguages, comparing US and Uk English, and Kuwaiti and Mor occan Arabic. He noted that, while he can understand Arabic when spoken by peo ple who are from countries close to Ku wait, such as Saudi Arabia or Qatar, when he speak s to a Moroc can Arabic speaker, he can barely understand them. From there we transitioned to talking about cu lture and differences between American a nd Kuwait. Talked about how family is an ex t r...
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Melissa Rueda TS #16

<TS Blogs>  Date/Time: November 3rd, 10:30 AM Location: Skype Topic/Skill: Speaking/ Discussion Style  Feedback provided to tutee: Practice, Practice! The  only  way to perfect a skill is to  practice, especially when you are away from school. Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: It was very empowering having to create my own activity right on the spot. My tutee  notified me, with 5 minute notice. So having to create an activity quick was challenging but rewarding because my tutee loved the  impronto  acting game. 
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