Tyler Lee TS #4 Adult

April 6

Like usual, we started our session with a conversation warm up; we talked about our families, how much we miss them, how many siblings we had, and other generalities. Once the topic was primed, I had In-hwa speed write for 10 minutes to tell me as much about her family as she could and after error correction we spoke more specifically about our relationships with family members and recalled specific memories with them. I know In-hwa misses her family in Korea, but I did find out that she actually lives with her oldest sister who is in Tallahassee. I feel that my strategy of getting In-hwa to produce a lot of language in the first half of our sessions is showing its value, and even though she still pauses a lot and is uncertain at times, she is beginning to convey ideas more smoothly and in less time. After this, I gave In-Hwa a printout depicting tongue positioning for consonant sounds to serve as a visual aid to help with her pronunciation. We did listening and production of sounds using minimal pairs with <f>/<p>, <l>/ <r>/<w>, and <s>/<z>. In-hwa's listening for these sounds has improved a lot judging from the listening quizzes that we have been doing every session, and she is starting to be able to articulate some of the minimal pairs clearly so that I can understand which she is using.