Classroom Communication for International TA's is a combination of textbook instruction and classroom practice of communication skills. Students work on pronunciation, fluency, vocabulary development, question and answer techniques, paraphrasing, and discussion. There are videotaped practice teaching sessions with feedback given by the instructor in tutorial sessions and by other native speakers of English during presentations.
Enrollment is limited to graduate students or to seniors close to graduation who have completed all AEC requirements (except ESLP 126 or ESLP 128.) The course is further limited to students with high oral/aural skills as demonstrated on the AEC English Proficiency Test or the TOEFL test and the SPEAK or TSE. (The new iBT TOEFL has a speaking section which is replacing the TSE).
Students wishing to enroll in this course must receive permission from
the AEC. For further information on this course, contact Howard Pollock at
hpollock@ku.edu, or 1-785-864-4606. There are prerequisites for this course,
including a minimum SPEAK test score of
35.
Course Content
in classroom, professional, and social settings.
- Students attend a Pronunciation Seminar that focuses on factors influencing
a student's comprehensibility in English, and they attend a Classroom Expectations
Seminar that highlights cultural expectations in the classroom and teaching
and presentation techniques.
- Students deliver 6 videotaped mini-lectures or presentations during
the semester, and perform self-evaluations as well as receive feedback from the
course instructor.
KU undergraduates also attend these mini-lectures and provide feedback.
- Students meet with the instructor for an individual tutorial for 45
minutes per week and participate in one or more discussion sections each week
with
native speakers to improve their fluency.
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