TP#8

Previously i had asked him where he had been generating some to the phrases he had been asking my for clarification. Among tv and general conversation he told me that he was reading A Diary of A Wimpy Kid to help him improve his English. So I asked him to bring the book with him to Stroizer. The two tasks i had in store for him were pretty simple. First he was to read me a chapter(roughly 5 medium sized font pages) and i would jot down notes on his reading. Reading the chapter took about 10 minutes and i got a good sense for what his problems speaking were. In the past I only corrected his grammatical and pronunciation errors, but there are a few problems with the way he speaks. I explained to him that he was speaking loudly enough but needed to take time to remember to enunciate his words so that they could come out less choppily. I asked him to reread a several passages that i noted were a but unclear when he read them initially and asked him to go back and reread them with the change. After that we read together an article that I picked from the Korean Times about K-pop stars exploitation. I made sure that it would push his vocabulary a bit and asked him to try to put the correct inflections in when he was speaking. The inflections were a bit more troublesome than the annunciation but i think he got it down pretty well.