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| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5172 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 1 of 2 06 July 2012 at 4:18pm | IP Logged |
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When I return home I'll be looking into tutoring my L2 in my community (maybe even ESL
as well as I've done a bit of that here). I figure most interest would come from high school students taking French and maybe some parents who want their children to learn French and some adults whose lifelong dream has been to learn French. My teaching philosophy is basically to teach students to learn how to teach themselves. This comes from my experience in music where private lessons are essentially geared to teach someone how to practice effectively by teaching how to structure a practice session, what should be covered, and how to identify and how to solve problems. Obviously I'd teach actual content and use the session to work on speaking especially but I'd also focus on finding good resources, how to use DVDs/audio/books/etc to learn language, how to use tools like Anki, and most importantly how to stay disciplined. So my question is to all who have tutored or who have used a tutor in language learning: what can a tutor do to be really effective? And the flipside to that question: what sorts of things do tutors do that are complete wastes of time/money? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5313 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 2 06 July 2012 at 9:52pm | IP Logged |
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A tutor who teaches people how to learn on their own? What a good idea!
I recently spent several months working with an excellent French tutor. She was also a polyglotâI think she spoke 4 or 5 languages and was planning on more. Our lessons were conducted entirely in French. What I liked best: 1. She pushed me to improve. Sometimes this meant having DELF B2-style debates. At other times, it might be something as simple as expecting me to fix my R. (I tend to tap the trailing Rs in notre and attendre.) But that constant gentle pushing helped. 2. She corrected unobtrusively, without breaking the flow of conversation. In her case, this meant typing in Skype. 3. She was very good at soaking up frustration. This is probably the trickiest part of being a good tutor: You need to let other people's frustration just roll off your back while remaining encouraging. Things that were mostly useless: 1. Correcting writing exercises. Lang-8 is great for this. Edited by emk on 06 July 2012 at 9:53pm 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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