Alex TP 7

On Monday I met with Jung in the café at Strozier Library. She was already there working in her workbook when I got there. The week before we had gone through diagrams of maps in which she would orally describe directions. At the end of the lesson I had picked out a more difficult route and asked for her to have a written set of directions as well as the ability to recite it without mistakes for the next time we’d meet. She gave me the written directions at the start of our meeting, which had no mistakes, and her verbal directions were also good. However, she still struggled with the pronunciation of her “L”s and “R”s, and even though I asked that she practice over the weekend she clearly hadn’t. This time I tried to be more specific and said that if she wanted to pass her oral exam and fix this problem she should make at least 100 flash cards with various common “L” and “R” words and practice reciting them randomly. I tried to rationalize this emphasis by stressing the importance of being able to distinguish pronunciation if she is to pass this portion of her exam.

For that day’s work we went over drawn scenarios, much like comic strips, in which she is supposed to describe the situations. There was much less stuttering and her confidence was higher than with the directions. We went over a few and I just made sure she was speaking in the right verb tense, which was problematic before. For the most part though, she did very well at this. I reminded her to make the flash cards, once again expressing their importance and we agreed we’d meet the following day because her test was this week.