The second session that I had observed was with a
male tutor as well. This time he presented himself and welcomed me to the
writing center, he told me that he had took the same class ENG220 a few years
ago and that he was glad to help me now. Actually he was graduated from LAGCC a
few years ago and now he is a full-time tutor. This tutor is Hispanic and during
the session I was observing he get to tutored a student that were not native
English speakers. This combination was great to me because he knew the feeling
of having a language barrier and could understand the tutee’s needs.
The tutor knew the tutee from previous sessions
and had a nice relationship since he’s being working with her from few months
and she keeps requesting him. The student was taking ENG102 class which is a
research paper class, at the beginning of the session the first thing that the
tutor did was introduce me to the student. After read what the student has to
start he explained that what the tutee had was an abstract and that he needed
to see the assignment which later he handled to me, in order to give me a
better understanding of the situation. Subsequently, he states “Everything that
you have is good, just narrowed down” which make me realize that he was
motivating the student to keep writing, which is a very good. The tutee needed
to write the thesis statement as she started “I will discuss fact one, fact two
and fact three, using this, this and that” the structure of the paper was a
great start for a student with language barriers, since most of them does not
know how to start. Later the tutor helped her to combine the sentence since
that is her most common problem, on his effuse trying to help the student he
adds, I remember that you took philosophy before think on something that you
can apply here to help you from the experience and knowledge that you gain on
that class. Now that you have the idea
that you can apply from the philosophy class think in a way you can apply it
though the character. He made the tutee think about the main idea of the paper
and asked questions that helped her to think. After a quiet time he gives an
answer which made the tutor to ask for more and so on.
The tutee and the tutor had a good relationship
and understand each other, they know what they expect to get from each other
and make a good team work. As the session is over the tutor ask for any final
questions that she may have, for what she positive says that she is ready to go
and may come back with the paper done so he could look at it. After the tutee
left the session the tutor nicely asked me if I had any question referring to
my needs which I found very nice from him based on my previous experience.
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