Nic Reagan TS #8

     This was my first tutoring session with female Chinese student, Yan. I used our first session as an opportunity to evaluate her level of English proficiency and utilized the Needs Assessment to understand her background and areas where she needs help in her English studies. While her conversational understanding is fairly proficient, we determined she could use help in speech fluidity, building confidence in her speaking, and building up her vocabulary. Like many Chinese students, her 'book English' is good, but her everyday-use English needs improvement. Yan likes Geography as much as I do and we share being Visual Learners in common. I'll definitely use visual learning in our future tutoring sessions and we'll practice her conversational English fluidity. Her goals are to speak English naturally in everyday situations and then use her newfound knowledge to teach English to Middle School learners in China. I enjoyed our first meeting and look forward to being a part of her progress!