Observation #3

On April 5th, I went to the writing lab at LAGCC to do my one hour observation for my English 220 class. This session was different from my first two observations, I sit in on two students in a English 99 class that was practicing for the CATW. These two students were different from the other students that I accounted while observing, they had a strong language barrier. The tutor started the session by giving the students a session reprt to give back to their professors. The tutor proceeded to give the male tutee an assignment to read and he gave the tutee detailed directions. Then he adressed the female tutee, from their discussion it was noted that the tutor worked with her the day before. As the tutor was working with her he focused on some LOC's due to the fact there was a language barrier. The tutor was very patient when working with her, he explained more in detail the article she read and reviewed questions and directions. The article seemed hard for the tutee, the tutor spoke in a calm manner reassuring her that the CATW will not be as difficult as  the assignment she was working on. Some words were hard for the tutee to understand the tutor had to stop occasionally to help her with her vocabulary. Cheerleading took place on the tutors part as well as my when the tutee got a better understanding. As the tutee began to write yet again the tutor focused on Low Order Concerns because of the tutees grammar needed some corrections yet she got her thoughts across. Across the table the other tutee was having the same problem with writing a summary on what he had just read. The tutor allowed me to help the tutee and it was my 1st ten minutes of working in the writing center. The tutor and I helped the tutee breakdown his assignment by paragraphs by pointing out important points. The tutee was informed to take notes as I read assignment along with him. Questions was asked constantly to the student to open his mind up for some of his thoughts on the topic of the assignment. I enjoyed working with this tutor whose name was Lawrence i would recommend him to any LAGCC student who has a language barrier.