Final literacy tutoring!

Last week I had my second to last tutoring session. I worked with two wonderful people, one was an elderly black man and another was a young Asian man studying at Vanderbilt. Both sessions went really well. In the first session, the elderly black man and I worked a lot on long and short syllables. He did a pretty good job with it, but seemed to have trouble differentiating long and short vowels, but we went over a couple of tricks for figuring it out and I think he was improving by the end. The second student was a really sweet Asian man from South Korea. He wanted to work on conversation a lot so we talked for a while and I was able to hear all about his studies at Vanderbilt and how it is hard for him to work in study groups because he gets left behind since he doesn't know the language. We talked about various vocabulary words and did some reading comprehension, which he did a great job on. What he really wanted help with was his pronunciation, so we were able to do a lot of repetition, which hopefully helped him with that.