Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Lunchtime Seminar
4/22 & 4/29
Providing an opportunity for faculty, graduate students, and professional staff to gather with colleagues to listen, discuss, comment, interact and reflect on a variety of topics to enhance teaching and learning.
The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning offers the following workshops:
English Pronunciation for International Faculty and TAs - (Additional Session)
Cynthia DeRoma, Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning
Do you sometimes feel like you need some help with your English pronunciation, but don’t know where to start? It is not unusual for some students to negatively evaluate courses and teaching when they have trouble understanding the instructor’s pronunciation, regardless of the actual quality of the teaching itself. In this session, we will go over some common pronunciation issues involving individual sounds, stress, and intonation, to help international faculty and TA’s identify areas of their spoken English that could be improved for clarity. We will also go over resources offered by CETL specifically targeted towards international instructors.
Friday, April 22, 2016
11:15-1:10pm
ROWE Center, room 318
English Pronunciation for International Faculty and TAs Part 2 - More Practice
Cynthia DeRoma, Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning
If you have attended CETL’s English Pronunciation seminar or some other pronunciation workshop or course, you now have an idea of some common issues that can interfere with the clarity of your speech. This session will address specific concerns in more detail by providing practice and discussion of pronunciation aspects chosen in advance by the participants. When you register, please send an email to cynthia.deroma@uconn.edu saying what you would like the session to focus on, such as specific individual sounds or sound contrasts, stress, rhythm, intonation or any other area. While we might not be able to cover everything, the facilitator will do her best to accommodate as many requests as possible in the time we have.
Friday, April 29, 2016
11:15-1:10pm
ROWE Center, room 318
A boxed lunch will be provided. If you have special dietary needs (vegetarian, gluten free, or both) please e-mail Stacey Valliere. Requests made within 7 days of seminar will not be honored.
Registration is required.
To register and view more workshops, please visit http://itl.uconn.edu/seminars/.
For more information, contact: Stacey Valliere at stacey.valliere@uconn.edu