My Experience
I first started tutoring during my gap year in Beijing in 2011 after graduating from high school. There, I would tutor French to Chinese students in exchange for them helping me practice my Mandarin for the same amount of hours. The level of my Chinese students varied, which required me to vary my tutoring approaches. My methodology relies on assessing the level of the students as well as their objectives prior to adopting an interactive approach to tutoring, by frequently repeating various points learned throughout the lesson. I would then test them regularly on vocabulary, points of grammar and conjugation.
It is important for me to insist on speaking French during most of the tutoring class for those students who have an adequate level of French, with a view to creating a practical interest in the language by referring to songs and movies embedded in French culture. This highlights the practical use of French to the students which also making the language more appealing to them.
My second experience of tutoring took place while I was at university. I would tutor some of my peers who had taken Law and French as their Bachelors Degree. The difference with my first experience as a tutor was that their level was higher than those students which I tutored in China which required me to ensure that the specific vocabulary which fit within their academic curriculum would be learned throughout the lesson.
My Qualifications
High School: Ganenou (Belgium)
Undergraduate Degree: The University of Sheffield University – LLB Merit
Masters Degree: King’s College London – Law and Intellectual Property Merit
