So last week, my student had the English examination for Japanese called "Eiken". Although the grade she challenged was the first one, I think it was a bit challenging for her since basically it's for twelve/thirteen kids. Here is a website for that in case you are interested.
http://stepeiken.org/
On Tuesday,I have marked her results and with my marking, she got about a half of them. In writing, she correctly marked according to what I taught in the lessons, but in listening, I see her confusedness. her result is just about 50 percent, so I am really not sure whether she can get a diploma or not.
From now on, she is trying to get the next grade which is the forth one, and which is more difficult. I can't manage to teach her until the next exam though, I will do my best with next two months or less than that. In my plan, I am going to focus on listening, writing, grammar and vocabulary. ... Sounds like everything. well, I think her problem is on reading, since Eiken only focuses on reading and listening. However language is not only reading and listening. So I think at the first step, if she can read and write words, she can produce and understand speech/text. I'll be trying to put some conversations in English only because in my experience I found it so difficult to speak only in English though it's so normal to communicate with other people.As the first lesson after the examination, in first 30 minutes, I give a book about American family who has just moved to japan to her and read it out with me. The reason I put this exercise is there are many useful words that she doesn't know. After that we did exercise of forth grade, some examples and explained.
I do really hope that my tutor time will somehow help her in the future. Thanks for reading :)!
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