Emily TS #12

Date/ Time: 21 April 2017 @ 8 PM

Location: Skype

Since our last session topic was a bit on the heavier side this week with Dojun I decided to choose a topic that could tell him a bit about what was happening in his brain as he learned English. Our listening activity this week centered on the topic of the bilingual brain and the different theories surrounding second language learning. Like our last session this week I did not provide a vocabulary list. During our first few sessions, when I did provide vocabulary, I noticed that Dojun knew more of the words than expected, but also that he could reasonably guess an unfamiliar word’s meaning fairly well. As such, this is what Dojun did this week, and he did really well, with the majority of his unfamiliar words being medical such as “prefrontal” and “synapses.”  After the video and vocabulary review Dojun answered some comprehension questions and, again, did really well. After this segment on language learning I had Dojun watch a brief clip from the television show, Friends, in which Phoebe tries to teach Joey French. After watching the clip Dojun was to explain to me what was happening in the scene and answer a few of my active listening questions such as, “What was Joey actually saying when he repeated after Phoebe?”