Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Lila TP#1
Upon my arrival at my student's house I asked about her interests to break the ice. I learned that she enjoyed drawing and painting and also knew how to play piano. After becoming acclimated with each other, we began learning.
In our session, we decided to focus on reading. My student had been reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and so we continued together with her novel. I noticed that my student had very good reading skills and reading speed but her pronunciation of more advanced words needed a bit of work. There were times where she would apply rules to certain words resulting in incorrect pronunciation. For example: "reassuring" would be pronounced rEE-shOO-ring because of the "ea" vowel combination being recognized instead of the "re" prefix. Another example would be the word "sputtered", which would be pronounced sputter-ed. Obviously these weren't huge mistakes in pronunciation and it didn't take away from the experience. I was very impressed with the drama that she added while reading aloud. After hearing her read about thirteen pages, I gave her a list of words that she mispronounced or didn't know the definition of for her to review.
Working with her was delightful. Next time, I hope to bring something more challenging to the session, possibly a few vocabulary words or words with peculiar spellings and pronunciations.
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Lila, as I mentioned in class, you don't need to focus on their pronunciation mistakes unless it changes meaning. (e.g. "pill" vs. "fill", "rock" vs. "lock") Also, if you don't understand what the student is saying, you need to correct their pronunciation errors. However, don't worry too much about their accents.
ReplyDeleteHi Lila,
ReplyDeleteI am impressed that you had the patience to listen to 13 full pages of her reading. Did she show any signs of fatigue while reading so many pages out loud? How did you feel while she was reading? How did you decide that she had read enough? It is inspiring to hear your positive words of "delight" when describing your feelings while working with her.