Lane TS #9

This next tutoring session I found myself both being better at and trying harder to successfully and competently edit/review Ki Woong's thesis work. Something interesting and a little upsetting that Ki Woong told me about with regards to his work in this session was that while sending his work out to different publications and universities, he received some feedback that although his identity was unknown to the reader, they could tell that he was not a native English speaker. It struck me as extremely unfair that this should prevent someone from certain kinds of acceptance in and access to resources and outlets that are controlled by native English speakers. That kind of discrimination seems unnecessary and unjustifiable, and it makes me want to help students of EFL courses learn English even faster so that they don't have to be limited or controlled by people like that. My hope for them is to give them the power to respond to and fight against dominant, unruly powers like that on their own terms. That's what I learned from and realized in this tutoring session.