FSU TEFL 120 Spring 2_2026

Date/Time: April 10, 8-9pm  Location: Zoom meeting Feedback provided to tutee: This was my first session with a new tutee over Zoom. I ran her through ten evaluation questions covering basic topics like her daily routine to gauge her skill level.   Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: I learned how to structure a tutee evaluation more efficiently after my previous experience. Opening with questions like tell me about your daily routine helped gage her skill level and determined that she was low intermediate.

  Date/Time: April 17, 4-5pm  Location: Strozier Library Feedback provided to tutee: We moved into debate-style speaking, where I pushed back on every opinion to force her into complex sentences. My tutee worked through debate topics designed to go over the present perfect tense and vocabulary words related to the topic.  Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: I learned that my tutee has a large understanding of grammar and now it's time to introduce her to elaborate professional vocabulary. 

Date/Time: April 13, 4:00-5:00 Location: Strozier Library Feedback provided to tutee: My tutee finished the ee worksheet quickly, so we moved into structured conversation practice. I picked speaking prompts designed to naturally pull in the ee vocabulary we had been working on, which let her reinforce the spelling patterns.  Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: I learned that once a tutee has the pattern down, the best follow-up is real conversation built around the same vocabulary. 

Date/Time: April 10, 4:00-6:00 Location: Sweet Shop Cafe Feedback provided to tutee: My tutee asked to build on the vowel sounds work by covering the different ways the i sound gets spelled in English. We went through five patterns which were ee, ea, eau, ie, ey and worked through the tricky ea exceptions like bread and sweat that break the rule. I reiterated word stress back into the practice so she could keep that skill sharp, and we closed by tying the lesson back to the ough patterns and vowel pairs from previous sessions. Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: I learned that when a tutee starts choosing her own topics, the lessons land much harder because she has a personal stake in the material. Connecting the new content back to her previous sessions also gave her a clear sense of how much she had already built up and I was able to watch her recognize her own real progress.

  Date/Time: April 8, 5:00-6:00 Location: Strozier Library Feedback provided to tutee: We focused on word stress and the noun/verb stress shift, using pairs like PREsent/preSENT and REcord/reCORD. I walked her through the physical cues for stress and taught her how to count syllables. Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: I learned that word stress completely changes whether a native speaker can understand someone, even when every sound is technically correct. 

Date/Time: April 1, 4:00-5:00 Location: Sweet Shop Cafe Feedback provided to tutee: We worked through minimal vowel pairs like ship/sheep and bit/beat, focusing on the long i sound that doesn't exist in Spanish. I also made sure to give her mouth-position tips.   Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: I learned that Spanish speakers often cannot hear certain English vowel contrasts at first, since the sounds don't exist in their language. I also learned that pairing the drill with a visual cue helped her physically see the difference.

Date/Time: March 30, 5:00-6:00 Location: Strozier Library Feedback provided to tutee: My tutee worked through the "ough" worksheet I had built around our previous conversation. She moved from matching exercises into reading in context, then finished with a spoken challenge using sentences packed with the patterns. Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: I learned that this lesson was created after asking my tutee to explain what she struggled with the most during last lesson. I learned to build on certain topics that needed more work and explanation.