I had my second tutoring session with Sylvie on
Saturday. We went over her presentation
that is due this Tuesday and mainly worked on pronunciation. We went slide by slide and I had her read it
aloud to me. When we found words that
were troublesome, we stopped and spent some time working on them. Due to her first language, which is French,
she has trouble with th sounds and h sounds.
She also has trouble with words like bill with the double l’s. I was glad I had a background in French so I
was able to recognize where her first language was interfering with learning
English. I over exaggerated the tongue
placement for the th sounds and made mention to the kind of tongue placement
she is used to with her first language. This
seemed to help her and she seemed to be able to better pronounce the sounds.
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