Tutoring

If you have questions about the course or feel that you need extra help, your first port of call should be the instructor or the TA. They want to help! Still, sometimes people would rather go to somebody else for help. For this reason, the Department of Linguistics has arranged to make free tutoring for LING 101 students available at the Academic Services Center (in George Evans House, corner of Main St. & South College Ave.).

Bert Xue and Sun-Hoi Kim, Ph.D. students in the Department of Linguistics, are available at the Academic Services Center at the following times:

Monday		2:00-5:00
Tuesday		4:00-7:00
Wednesday		2:00-5:00
Thursday		4:00-7:00
Friday	10:00-1:00	2:00-5:00

In order to get the most out of the tutoring services, you should do the following:

• Ask for help early - don't expect a 'miracle cure' to be found the day before the exam!
• Come to the tutor armed with specific questions (e.g. "I'm having trouble figuring out when two sounds are allophones of one another", or "I'm trying to gather evidence for a syntactic structure, but I don't understand what the tests are telling me". Don't expect to gain much from very general pleas (e.g. "I don't understand ANYthing, the instructor makes no sense, and the exam is the day after tomorrow - HELP!").
• Bring a copy of relevant materials: textbook, homework assignment, class notes etc. The tutors will be working with students from a number of different sections of LING 101, so they will want to know about the specific material being covered in your section.

Please talk to the instructor or to the TA if you have any further questions about the tutoring service. We hope it will be a useful resource.