FSU TEFL 120 Certificate 2024 Summer 2

  TS Blogs August 19th, Monday Session #1 with Karime (TEFL and CIES engagement conclusion and review) Topic/Skill: This was less of a tutoring session and more of a discussion between Karime and me about the environment in which she is most comfortable learning English. Additionally, we talked about ways we could make the Altamira-CIES program better and how I could improve abroad students' experience in the future. Feedback Provided to the Tutee: Karime provided more feedback to me as I asked her questions regarding the above. Some of these questions were, " What were your preferences for setting, specific experience, length of experience, language mode (writing, reading, speaking, listening), and social dynamics after having experienced learning English at FSU?", "Could you describe the degree of comfort you felt learning the language at FSU and how that changed based on the environment you were in?", and "How did socialization play a role in your langua...

TS Blogs August 19th, Monday Final Session (Session #6) with Ricardo Topic/Skill: We covered what Ricardo got from his experience abroad in the United States and the growth he had achieved in the English language. I utilized Ricardo and I's final session to go over some key grammatical and pronunciation aspects he struggled with during our sessions. Furthermore, we discussed the environments he was most comfortable speaking English for further use in my future and his. Feedback Provided to the Tutee: I told Ricardo to always remember and focus on subject-verb agreement, indefinite articles, adverbs, and linking verbs. I also told Ricardo ways to maintain his fluency in English (i.e. shows or movies in English, switching his phone to English, or texting/calling me). Lastly, I told Ricardo that CIES would always be available to him if he ever had the desire to come back to FSU. Lessons: The main lessons we covered were a review of subject-verb agreement, indefinite articles, adverbs,...

Date/Time : Thursday August 1st Location : Zoom Topic/Skill : Speaking (Housing in Tallahassee, moving, stationery, natural conversations) Feedback provided to the tutee : While we were on the topic of moving and housing in Tallahassee, I gave Wei some non-language advice about adhesive strips she could buy to hang things on her wall. From there we moved on to talking about stationery (mostly notebooks, pens, and pen ink) and some new vocabulary included: artisanal , wax paper , fountain pen , and waterfall (describing the art on the cover of a notebook). Finally, we talked about how natural conversation between friends is spontaneous or sometimes goes in unexpected directions, like our session today which was supposed to be about idioms for business English. We did squeeze in a brief bit at the end for off the rails , as well as the difference between idioms and proverbs or adages . Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned : Cultural knowledge or education about idioms or...