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Teaching Assistant
10 Hours per Week
This position serves as
a tutorial instructor for the OEPP (Oral English Proficiency
Program). The OEPP provides non-credit assistance in English
as a Second Language to help candidates for graduate teaching
assistantships develop oral language competence and acquire cultural
knowledge necessary for effective communication teaching in North
American academic contexts.
Tutorial instructors
provide one-on-one teaching, auxiliary instruction, and practice for students
enrolled in English 620, "Classroom Communication for International
Teaching Assistants."
Tutorial instructors
provide individualized instruction that is not easily met via
classroom instruction, as well as ensuring immediate feedback and
error correction. Tutorial sessions may
focus on any or all of the following:
- intelligible
pronunciation, stress, and intonation patterns;
- listening
comprehension;
- vocabulary
pertaining to and beyond subject matter;
- coherent
organization of information at sentence and discourse
level.
Students enrolled in
English 620 receive 50 minutes of tutoring time per
week. Tutorial instructors
meet with students for eight or fewer hours per week, and use the
remaining time for administrative tasks, such as completing
evaluation forms. | 
