TEACHING ENGLISh!?
☮☮☮ asked:
I am tutoring a kid from korea who can speak, read, and write english, but not fluently.
My job is to teach him to speak fluently and express himself.
How can I do this? What techinques do you recommend?
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I am tutoring a kid from korea who can speak, read, and write english, but not fluently.
My job is to teach him to speak fluently and express himself.
How can I do this? What techinques do you recommend?
October 4th, 2009 at 10:15 am
Speak to him in Korean, Sharon. You’re brilliant. You should be able to figure it out.
Teach him more basic things first, the work your way up to grammar and stuff to make him talk fluently.
Thanks for the two points *peace sign* annette
October 6th, 2009 at 2:56 am
Just speak English to him…NOT TOO HARD THOUGH!! You don’t wanna confuse him…Ask him questions that require his opinion.
Kat Cullen <3
October 7th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Some tips:
1- Be patient. Speaking fluently requires tons of practice.
2- Explore his MIs (Multiple Intelligences). It might be easier for him to speak more if he is engaged in activities that make him feel successful and relaxed.
3- Expose him to a lot of vocabulary that children his age would like/need to use.
4- Use prompts. Just engaging in conversation might be hard depeding on his cognitive level and knowledge of the American culture. A cartoon, a tv show, or a song are good sources of speaking material.
5- Ask him if he would like to record himself speaking English and listen back. You could do tons of error correction exercises. He can pretend to be a radio host or something like that.
6- Use puppets. You would not believe what they can do for shy children!
7- Whenever possible draw from his Korean heritage. Encourage him to share his cultural background and his stories from back home.
8- Use multicultural stories. There is a very nice website, i cant recall the name right now but it is something like asiankids.com and/or cultureforkids.com
9- Once again. Be patient.
10- In general, make it FUN. Question and answer sessions are way too boring.
Hope this helps!
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