March 28
We met at the CIES courtyard again and started the session with some warm up conversation to give me a better opportunity to hear In-hwa generate speech, listening for phonemes that prove particularly difficult for her to pronounce and for errors in grammar. After our conversation warm up, In-hwa shared her debate topic for her speaking test; even though her opinion of the topic is the opposite of what she has been asked to debate, she is to argue that students should be allowed to carry guns on FSU campus. At first I had her argue her true opinion, which is that students should not be allowed to carry guns on campus, and I argued against her, giving her examples of arguments that she could use for her case. I think providing these examples for her helped her to understand how to navigate her use of rhetoric and to think about what counter arguments that she should be ready for. For the last portion of the session we focused on minimal pair pronunciation exercises for the phonemes <l> and <r> and the phonemes <s>, <z>, and <th>.
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