Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Teaching Seminar
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 workshop:
Overview of American English Pronunciation for International Faculty & TA’s
Cynthia DeRoma CETL – Faculty Development Programs
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 when they have trouble understanding the instructor’s pronunciation, regardless of the actual quality of the teaching itself. In addition, differences in intonation can cause a speaker to sound boring or not interested in his or her subject matter. In this session, we will go over some common pronunciation issues involving individual sounds, stress, and intonation, to help international faculty and TAs 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, February 3rd
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://cetl.uconn.edu/seminars/.
For more information, contact: Stacey Valliere at stacey.valliere@uconn.edu