I had contacted Soon Gyu about being reassigned to another tutor for the term, but she insisted that she wanted to keep this appointment. We met in the lab at CIES. Soon Gyu said that she received an email about her new tutor last night when she opened her email, and said she would contact her this week. She advised that she will be going home to Korea for a visit in August. She is happy about this and looks forward to seeing her sister, who is expecting a baby in a few months--her parents' first grandchild. She up-ended her very successful life to come to Tallahassee with her new husband at the beginning of this year, so I am glad she gets a chance to go home and renew herself.
I have been working on a needs analysis instrument for class, and Soon Gyu agreed to "test out" a few questions with me. I found out that she considers, first, her parents the biggest influence in her life. Coming in a close second, however, is her old supervisor and mentor from her university in Jellabuk-do, Jeonju-si, Korea. She is in fact Dr. Kim, and she credits her mentor with her decision to finish her PhD and teach in Korea. She is considering going through the International TA Program at CIES, but was less clear about whether she in fact wishes to teach in the U.S. I do not know if she has decided for certain.
Following this exercise, we revisited phrasal verbs. Soon Gyu knows many of these, she said, through having memorized long lists in her ACES classes. I came "armed" with a print out from the book, Help Your Kids With Language Arts; J. Searcy, US editor (DK Publishing, NY:2013) on phrasal verbs. Pages 56-57 explain how to form, when/how to use, and how/when to separate phrasal verbs. I reviewed this with Soon Gyu and provided her with a copy of the handout, which was in color and showed lots of examples. After saying our "good-byes," Soon Gyu said she would contact me after she returns from Korea in August so we can catch up on news.
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