Selene TP-1

My first tutoring session with Soongyu consisted of getting to know each other and finding out what her interests and goals were. I asked her questions that let me know what she hoped to gain from our sessions and allowed me to plan our time together accordingly. This interaction led me to find out that she has a high level of understanding of written English, as she is a visiting scholar at FSU, but she feels weaker in the areas of listening and speaking. She is highly educated and her area of study is social welfare, specifically class inequity. I also learned that she does not plan to stay in the United States long-term but intends to move back to South Korea with her husband. However, her husband is American and she finds it frustrating not being able to speak English with the same level of proficiency as him.