The first time I went to tutor at NACL, the person I was going to tutor cancelled. Instead, the secretary Jill had me help her do some office work for an hour.
The second time I went to tutor at NACL, I tutored a woman named Hanaa from Iraq. Her first language was Arabic and she was trying to improve her skills in English. I walked her through a story and went over vocabulary words in the story. She was very smart and did well with reading English. She had more difficulty with speaking English than reading it. I had her practice talking to me without looking at her book, and I think it helped her a lot! I told her that I am a Spanish major and have struggled with the same thing she has with learning to listen to another language without looking at a book for reference. I told her to try and not get overwhelmed when listening to me speak. I told her that if she got the general idea of what I was saying then she was making process!
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