AFFIRMATION AND NOTICING: One language teacher’s integration of the InterPlay principles while tutoring
InterPlay is an active, creative way to unlock the wisdom of the body. ATLANTA SKYLINE. This photo was taken from the fourth floor of the Scheller Collge of Business at Georgia Tech from a breakout room where I was conducting tutorials with Chinese graduate students enrolled in Quantitative and Computational Finance. (photo by Ruth Schowalter, ESL language coach) Written by Ruth Schowalter, Certified InterPlay Leader (reposted from September 2014 InterPlay Atlanta) One-on-one English tutorials with international graduate students are intimate and supremely rewarding for both the language learner and the instructor. Having taught English as a second language at the university level for more than 20 years, I have met thousands of bright, talented and motivated people of the world and supported their efforts to gain a comfortable fluency using their “academic” language—English! Now, as an InterPlayer Leader in Training, I have been exp...