Selene TP-11

Since my original adult tutee is no longer available, I met Lu Zheng, a Chinese CIES student for lunch on Monday. The meeting was very informal and she brought her husband along with her. Lu's English fluency is very limited and I can tell she doesn't like to speak in English much. However, she gave up a very good job in China to come to the U.S. with her husband and she wants to improve her English as much as possible before they go back to China. They expect that a greater level of proficiency in English will provide her with a job even better than the one she gave up. Since Lu and I will only have two more sessions together (three in total) I think our time will be best used practicing her speaking and listening skills. When we meet again, I will have her listen to a recording - probably a short audio clip on current events - and have her answer some listening comprehension questions. We will then do error correction for content-based problems as well as grammatical and spelling mistakes.