Dojun told me before our first session that he wanted to
work on his listening specifically, so I picked out some books to read aloud.
First I tried The Great Gatsby, but I could tell right away that it was way too
difficult for him. Next, we tried The Old Man and the Sea, which I had
downloaded on my tablet. This was much better! I read a few pages to him to
check his comprehension, and he was able to express the main idea of the story
but did not pick up many details. After that, I read the beginning paragraph to
him twice and asked him some questions about it- for example, why did the boy’s
parents not want him to fish with the old man? I did this with a few key
passages in the book, reading them 2 times and then checking Dojun’s comprehension.
This seemed to be a good strategy- Dojun had very good comprehension after the
2nd listening! Despite not knowing some of the vocabulary, he was
able to ascertain the main ideas- for example, he knew from the description of
the old man’s house that he was poor. We talked about some of the new
vocabulary, for example the word “shack”.
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