Adam TP #1

On Friday at a little after 1:00 p.m. I met Bayasgalan near the front desk of CIES. He is a medical professional from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia who is here to take CIES classes. He is studying English for purposes of professional development. I am eager to help him in achieving this goal. We introduced ourselves to each other. We agreed to meet twice a week. We agreed that in the future we will meet once on Monday afternoons and once on Friday afternoons. We looked over his notes from the CIES grammar class in which he is enrolled, and also discussed the grammar rules he was learning. He is currently learning past and present tense, as well as verb endings according to tense. I asked him if there was anything in particular from his class that he had questions about or wanted to focus on more. He said that he had not come prepared with specific questions this time, but he would in the future. We agreed that next time we meet, he will write down four concepts he needs help with from his class, and two other optional aspects of English language that he wanted to learn more about. Bayasgalan seemed very eager to learn English, but was very obviously a beginner. He knew some basic English words but occasionally struggled with conversation. This is something I hope to find a way to help him work on in the future. He seemed very interested in learning written English, but I felt that he could be more confident in speaking. As a result, I learned from experience the need to slow down my speech and simplify my language when tutoring a non-native speaker in English. In the future, I hope to be able to effectively communicate with my student in such a way that he will feel a higher level of confidence in speaking as well as writing English.