Attitude:
I will give myself a 4 for attitude. I think I have always been given my tutees a very positive attitude. Since Chinese is my first language, I can feel a strong connection with the tutees when I am tutoring them.
Encourages/ supports:
I will give myself a 3 for encourage and support. Since I have the experience of learning a second language, it helps me to think of ways to support my tutees through my past experience. However, since English and Chinese are completely different, being a native Chinese speaker, sometimes I also feel like it is not easy to think from their aspects. Meanwhile, I didn’t take Chinese class at Rollins, so there are times when I am not sure about how to support them.
Processing Time:
I give myself a 2 for processing time. I didn’t do well on processing time, because I always have the feeling that in a language course, if you don’t know something then you don’t know it. No matter how much time I give my tutees, they still wouldn’t be able to pronounce a word if they simply just don’t know it. However, think about it the other way, I might add pressure to my tutees by doing this, which might cause them to forget something that they really know about. As a result, processing time is definitely something I need to work on.
Scaffolding:
I will give myself a 3 for scaffolding. I have been working with my tutees to break down the complicated characters into simple characters that they know. I would break down complicated sentence structures and compare them with other structures, so that it would become easier to memorize and understand.
