Vie Miller TS#3

Rhea joined me in the student lounge after she returned from her trip to Wakulla Springs. As with Song and Turki, I spent my time getting to know her and her goals for learning English. Rhea has only been in Tallahassee for six weeks, and she will be staying long enough to develop her English skills to support her career when she returns to Switzerland (she wants to be a police officer). She is the only European in her class, and the only one of my tutees who told me that she did not go to University in Switzerland and doesn’t plan to when she returns. I don’t know enough of Rhea’s story to make any generalizations, but I will be interested in developing a better understanding of the distinction between European English-learners and others while teaching Rhea. In the meantime, I’ll be developing a lesson for her based on a request to better understand English’s verb tenses.