Blog # 14

As I was observing many sessions, I have noticed a lot of things that go on during my session especially when tutoring students who are ESL students. When ESL students come into a writing session it seems to me that he or she is looking for the tutor to do all of the work. For example, in general students who undergo training to work at a Writing Center are often introduced first to the collaborative method of tutoring.
In Power's essay the author draws a conversation about the strategies to approach ESL students. Although she begins with the usual Socratic methods that many tutors use with most students , she later talks about the element of the "Need of Intervention". Powers then discusses the differences in ESL students and the possibility to move away from Socratic methods to more of a
diclactic approach. In order to analyze how this method truly fails with ESL students, I would have to ask myself the following questions:

• Does the tutor use low order concerns so the students.
• Who takes control of the coaching and how that might affect both the student and the tutor.

I am not sure wheter I will be able to observe everything in my tutoring sessions because fiorst of all it depends on the individual. Every indivual responds to things differently.