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Erik G.
Private tutor in Irvine, CA
★★★★★ (1 review)
Education
•UC Santa Cruz (2010-2014) •BA in Linguistics, focus in Spanish •GPA: 3.20 •TESL Certificate (Teaching English As A Second Language) (2017)
Experience
One reason I want to be a tutor is because I enjoy helping others. Unlike school teaching's standards/objectives of a curriculum and passing the class, with tutoring the focus is on the individual's needs, so addressing the individual's unique perspective and learning style are more preferable to me. I also don't have much experience teaching entire classes (other than a small group I've tutored for), so I think tutoring would be a good place for me to start my career path in teaching. I have a fair amount of experience with tutoring itself. Most of my experience comes from tutoring grammar courses at UC Santa Cruz for two quarters, working with anywhere from 2-8 students at a time. Being that I excelled in my own grammar courses, I believe grammar to be one of my strongest areas in my language skills. I also have additional experience with one client from UniversityTutor.com (their review is here on my page), whom I have mostly assisted with in writing but as well as with sentence structure/grammar and word choice. Since I have acquired my TESL (Teaching English As A Second Language) Certificate, I have become more familiarized with a formal method for teaching English to both native and non-native speakers, and have a wealth of materials to draw from. A few areas that I specialize in include grammar, writing, speaking/conversation, pronunciation, listening, and vocabulary. My knowledge of language is far-encompassing, but also as much informal as it is formal. A few relevant language classes I've taken include the following: •Phonology I and II (sound structure of language and relevant patterns) •Semantics I and II (structure of meaning in both words and sentences) •Syntax I and II (structure of grammar/sentence structure) •Spanish 1-5 •Creative Writing
Subject Expertise
Creative Writing, English, Languages, Linguistics, Spanish 1, Spanish 2, Writing