Zeb TP#11

    Wednesday afternoon (the 14th) I met with Haneul for our final tutoring session. We watched a Rescue 911 episode on YouTube that was about a dog that alerted its owners that their baby had stopped breathing. The mother did CPR until the ambulance arrived and the baby survived. One of the main reasons that I wanted to watch a video was to be able to bring other English speakers into our tutoring session because Haneul has said several times that she has no trouble understanding me, but she has a hard time understanding the average native speaker. I did find that although Haneul was able to follow the main details of the story, there were many of the finer details that she did not get.
    After we had discussed her comprehension of the video and I had explained several things we discussed various strategies for her to be able to improve her comprehension of the average native speaker, such as regularly listening to or watching English material. I suggested that it may be helpful to find material that includes a written script that she can read as she listens, but she must be careful or it could become a crutch (I also made sure that she understood that term). I also showed her various resources that I had found that I felt would be appropriate for her level to help build comprehension of the average native speaker.