Classics Peer language tutors Tessa Waite

Students come with differing levels of ancient language learning Background Tessa Waite came up with an idea for students to peer tutor each other

Investigated Questionnaires – 60 students Focus group – a group of students from different years and coming with differing levels of ancient language experience

Results “a lot of problems in the first year … a lot of people dropped out” “Lots of people drop out and change to language in action” “if people had tutors I think they would have been more confident” “forced to work through the methodology… to teach someone properly you have to understand the language properly…teaching is a wonderful way to learn your language” 70% of students would find a peer tutor useful 67% of students thought that supporting others helped them in their learning 38% of students study level 1 in their first year “taught primary school children Latin… it does help you”

Results Out of the 7 students in the focus group, 6 students would like to be peer language tutors One of the students had already informally tutored a friend, others wanted to be teachers and thought the experience would be very beneficial and further student had taught Latin to Primary school children

Students would find a peer language tutoring system useful. Conclusion Action: Run a pilot in September with 5-10 volunteers willing to tutor level one first year students If this is successful look to develop the scheme