2. Language Specialist
In addition to being a language helper, I also work as a language specialist. The job is similar, to help students. The different is a language helper helps students in communicative and social setting; the language specialist help them with their academic issues. The main task to do tutoring, a one on one instructor. Another task is to develop a material based on the students’ book.
a. Tutoring
Tutoring is available daily to provide students with academic support trough individualized learning. If students need help in understanding their homework, have questions about their lessons, or want to improve their piece of writing, they can consult with tutors at the GL. The tutor will help them with a 20 minutes (30 minutes …show more content…
20 minutes is plenty to explain a simple grammar rule with a little practice. For writing problem, however, the time is never enough. The tutor are not allowed to help more than the allocated time to allow the students to work on their writing by themselves.
What the tutor do is to look closely at the students’ first paragraph and point out their mistakes and explain how to correct the mistakes. After that, the students are asked to look at the next paragraph of theirs and make correction accordingly by themselves. If they need more help, they can ask the tutor for more explanation.
Tutoring is a useful resource for the students who want utilize it at the cost of their time. Some students are not comfortable enough to ask questions in the classroom or to talk to the teacher. Some students find it easier to understand the explanation better when they were taught one on one. Providing options for students in regard of their learning style is a manifestation of a language principle by Brown (sfsfsadf), namely strategic learning.
Tutoring is also good for differentiated learning since it is a one on one teaching, the tutor can decide the best approach the explain the language content to the …show more content…
At the first half hour, we read a level 1 book about Pele and then wrote some sentences about the reading. At the second half, we went through his text book and reviewed his homework and tasks. We also prepared for future quizzes if he had any.
I learned that even though he struggle in spelling, he was not as bad as his teacher said. He was also shy (or hesitant) in term of asking for help. There was a time that he said he did not have any homework, but I insist to review his text book. I turned out that he had some task to do in the text book. We then reviewed the task together.
In the middle of the session, I heard from one of the students’ advisor that his grade improved significantly. I think it was not because of me and how I tutor him with similar approach I did in the regular tutoring. It might be because he was one of the students that learn better with individualized instruction.
c. Material Development
Among all the tasks that I have done in my internship, this is the only task that does not involved interaction with students. In this task, we are assigned to create additional exercises to accompany exercises that are found in the students’ text book. We were supposed to create three similar exercises for each one exercise found in the text book. By the end of the project, it is expected that we have a bank of exercises ready to be used in by student workers at the GL in tutoring, grammar review, and in the
In addition to being a language helper, I also work as a language specialist. The job is similar, to help students. The different is a language helper helps students in communicative and social setting; the language specialist help them with their academic issues. The main task to do tutoring, a one on one instructor. Another task is to develop a material based on the students’ book.
a. Tutoring
Tutoring is available daily to provide students with academic support trough individualized learning. If students need help in understanding their homework, have questions about their lessons, or want to improve their piece of writing, they can consult with tutors at the GL. The tutor will help them with a 20 minutes (30 minutes …show more content…
20 minutes is plenty to explain a simple grammar rule with a little practice. For writing problem, however, the time is never enough. The tutor are not allowed to help more than the allocated time to allow the students to work on their writing by themselves.
What the tutor do is to look closely at the students’ first paragraph and point out their mistakes and explain how to correct the mistakes. After that, the students are asked to look at the next paragraph of theirs and make correction accordingly by themselves. If they need more help, they can ask the tutor for more explanation.
Tutoring is a useful resource for the students who want utilize it at the cost of their time. Some students are not comfortable enough to ask questions in the classroom or to talk to the teacher. Some students find it easier to understand the explanation better when they were taught one on one. Providing options for students in regard of their learning style is a manifestation of a language principle by Brown (sfsfsadf), namely strategic learning.
Tutoring is also good for differentiated learning since it is a one on one teaching, the tutor can decide the best approach the explain the language content to the …show more content…
At the first half hour, we read a level 1 book about Pele and then wrote some sentences about the reading. At the second half, we went through his text book and reviewed his homework and tasks. We also prepared for future quizzes if he had any.
I learned that even though he struggle in spelling, he was not as bad as his teacher said. He was also shy (or hesitant) in term of asking for help. There was a time that he said he did not have any homework, but I insist to review his text book. I turned out that he had some task to do in the text book. We then reviewed the task together.
In the middle of the session, I heard from one of the students’ advisor that his grade improved significantly. I think it was not because of me and how I tutor him with similar approach I did in the regular tutoring. It might be because he was one of the students that learn better with individualized instruction.
c. Material Development
Among all the tasks that I have done in my internship, this is the only task that does not involved interaction with students. In this task, we are assigned to create additional exercises to accompany exercises that are found in the students’ text book. We were supposed to create three similar exercises for each one exercise found in the text book. By the end of the project, it is expected that we have a bank of exercises ready to be used in by student workers at the GL in tutoring, grammar review, and in the