Zeb TP#4

   Tuesday afternoon (the 16^th) I met with Haneul for the second time. I had told her the time before that I would find some phonics resources, which I had done. We went over the short/long vowel sounds again for a little while. She then wanted to move into just talking and error correction, so we did. I began asking her questions about her family, which turned into an interesting discussion. She described her parents in detail, mentioning some of their unique characteristics and personality traits. Her father is the manager of a hotel situated close to a mountain that is ideally suited for hiking and is popular with tourists. He plans on retiring soon and wants to move to the US. She described her mother as a worrier and detailed some of her worries. It was interesting to observe as Haneul seemed to recall various descriptive words that fit the situation she was describing and realized that they were no longer just letters in a book strung together to make a certain sound, but that they had actual communicative value. She also talked a little bit about her sister who is in NY studying right now.

There were quite a few times that Haneul asked me the proper way to express different concepts, so I would tell her various ways of expressing the thought, and some of them really intrigued her. At one point our conversation went off on a 'rabbit trail', so I introduced the expression to her and explained what it meant and how to use it.