TP#1 Alice

Yesterday after class I met up with Jose Neto, my CIES tutee. We spent the first ten minutes or so getting to know each other. I asked him questions regarding his English instruction. Before coming to CIES, he spent a year in Brazil studying English, which consisted of a two hour lecture every Saturday. I inquired as to why he was interested in learning English, to which he responded that he needed to learn English for his engineering major. After a brief introduction, I gave him a grammar proficiency test that I found after quite some time of searching the internet. It consisted of 120 questions, with the level of difficulty gradually increasing after a series of questions. Afterwards, I gave him a small article to read out loud, of which also had questions that tested his reading comprehension. As he was reading, I underlined the words that he mispronounced so that we could go over them after he finished, and so that I could find a pattern in his mispronunciation if it existed. Once that exercise was finished, I closed out the tutoring session by asking him simple questions concerning what he felt he needed to work on, what his strengths were, and how he feels that he learns best. From his performance in our reading activity, I believe that he is a very strong reader. His strongest weakness appears to be speaking. Therefore, I plan on finding fun activities for the next session that center on pronunciation and conversation.