More writing #20

Methods analysis

The research methods I used for collecting this data consists of self-observations as well as observations of tutoring sessions held by other students. In each observation, I focused on the native language of the student, the native language of the tutor, the tutoring styles of the tutors and the methods used by each. I looked for losses that could be reasonably related to language differences, and student responses to the tutor that are definitely related to language differences.
Methods

While collecting data for this research paper, I observed five students at various stages of secondary language acquisition. These students spoke Spanish, and form of African *.
I wanted to analyze the shift in methods used by tutors when assisting nns students.
Then to take the study a step further, I wanted to analyze the tutoring sessions to ascertain each tutor’s effectiveness with students that lack adequate English language skills for academic writing.

As the tutors proceed to read line by line, there seems to come a point where the tutor experiences a form of “frustration” or a feeling being slightly overwhelmed by the prospect of going thoroughly dissecting each aspect of the student’s paper.

Students who were not strong English speakers required a lot of repetition throughout their sessions. They were not readily able to understand what was said in English by non-bilingual tutors.

I took notice of students seemingly getting overwhelmed with the intense requirements of ESL students. Without realizing exactly what was going on, I noticed the tutors were required to explain things in detail a lot more than native speaking students-which of course made the word order correction process very lengthy. Each tutoring session I observed which involved a student who lacked English language proficiency went beyond the allotted one hour time limit.