Blog 15

Hi I was not in the last session because I WAS TUTORING!!!! YEII! jajaja so I don´t really what you talked about.

About my session I just had 3 and 2 of the were with the same writer, and it was very intresting because it was the exact same strategy or way to cunduct the session in the first one and in the second my notes were almost the same!!!!! I have to say that this writer is a very dificult one, she i challengeing me all the time. In both ocasions the paper she was writing was due that same day 1 hour later, In the first case she had almost done al the paper she was just having trouble with the conclusion, in the second case she didn´t have anything writen!!!!!! so she was very anxious beacuse she had to turn it in in two hours and she had nothing writen. I have to confess that made me feel anxious too, because she was not paying attention to what I was saying she just wanted me to tell her what to write so she can finish it before the class!

I have a lot of trouble on the ending of the session I think after reviewing the sessions that actually there is not a closing of the session so that means we cannot be sure if we acomplish the goals stablished at the beggining or what are the things the writer is going to work on for the next session!

Blog 14

In the sessions I had and on the ones we simulate in class I have noticed that there are many ways to gather data for my reaserch paper. cheking the bodylanguage of the writers may help me realize how confident they feel in the session and so that the session can be a sucess or a failure.
I think that a tentative focus can be how session are afected by confidence in ESL writers in the writing center. I don´t know is how I said it is the write way but that is the idea that I have I my mind in this moment and I am concious that I need to work in it.

Blog 13

Hi again well I been looking for some articles that can help me do my reaserch on the topic I chose, first I read an article called WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES? TUTOR INTERACTIONS WITH FIRST- AND- SECOND LANGUAGE WRITERS. this article talks about how tutors behave and what stategies they use when tutoring Non-native speakers (NNSs) and native speakers (NSs), and the anxiety the tutor present as a result of a wrong tutoring strategy. something that called my atention in this article was that it said that for NNSs the talk is the most important part of the session and that is very easy to the tutor to turn the writing session into a language session with out even asking the writer to. As a conclusion it says that writing centers need to do more research on diferent kinds of tutorials to fit more writers needs.

Other articles I read were:

TUTORING AND REVISION SECOND LANGUAGE WRITERS IN THE WRITING CENTER.

THE WRITING CENTER AND SECOND LANGUAGE WRITERS.

ESL WRITERS A GUIDE FOR A WRITING CENTER TUTOR.

FACING ESL WRITERS IN THE WRITING CENTER.

ESL TUTORING IN THE WRITING CENTER

I´m going to continue searching for more articles so I can have as many ideas for my reaserch as possible and then I can do a good paper!

Blog 12

After today´s class, I realized that for my data collection is very important to notice the bodylanguage of the writer. I want to focus on the confidence of the writer, so this topic was very usefull for me.

Blog 11

Well I´m still figuring out what Iwant to do for my research paper, but I´m still thinking a lot on working in the empathy and confidence issues, as I read in one of my classmates blog th getting to know talk is really important to break the ice with the writers and that I think will decide the failure or the success of the session!

Last wensday in my first session something happened to me that called my attension, at the beggining of the session Dr. Chandler was sitting with us helping both me and the writer to establish some goals, but when Dr. Chandler left the cubicle the writer took out some paper and told me that she didn´t wanted her to see them because she was also a teacher. that incident make me realized that confidence in the tutor will help the writer accomplish thier goals easier.

I have some articles tat Dr Chandler send me and article called What are the differences?: Tutor interactions with first- and second-language writers and I think that is a very intresting topic to work on.

I´m collecting my data of the writers by writing after each session in a special notebook, everything that happened in the session. I have had 2 sessions the first one was with a spanic lady and the second one was with a native english speaker and both session were so different I didn´t feel as confident with the second writer as I felt with the first one and all the problem was the empathy, and the language barrier.

Well I will continue working on the main idea of my research see all at class tonight!

Blog 10 Strategies

Hi all, afert my first session in the WC I definitly belive that my strategy will be the empathy with the writer. Empathy helps the writer to feel more comfortable and so, he/she can be more open to what you are trying to say. Confience between tutors and writers is SO IMPORTANT so have a succesful session. I will definitly work on building confidence and empaty with the writers.

Another idea for my research paper is the language, as I say on the last blog I will like to work with spanic people, so the idea that Dr Chandler gave me and that I tought it is very intresting is until which point I stop speaking spanish and I start speaking English? I think it is a very intresting subject to research. Thank you Dr. Chandler!!!

I felt so good after my first session, I waso so happy to see that I realy helped my writer! this first session gave me the confidence I need to see that I am able to work as a tutor!!!

I' M SO HAPPY!

Blog 9

Well I don't Know exactly what I want to do for my reaserch paper but what I'm sure of is that I want to work with spanic writers, maybe students from de ESL program or any other student that speak spanish as first language. why? first because for me it will be easier to help them I think I will not be frustrated trying to tutor students that just speak english and that may not understand what I'm trying to say.

I may work on the confidence of the writers when they work with a bilingual tutor. another thing is, how effective was the session if the writer feels more secure while working with a bilingual tutor. Another can be, if the student know that there is a bilingual tutor that can understand them better are they coming back to the tutoring center more often than they do it?

Well those are my ideas right now, I hope i have more and more so I can choose a topic for my research paper.