International Graduate Teacher Service at CU-Boulder (Spring 2009)

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

English Oral Training resources in Boulder

I received several inquiries from ITAs who would like to improve their English intelligibility in the classroom situation. Here's a tentative list of English Oral Training resources available in Boulder. Please let me know if you would like to add some institutions to the list. Please also feel free to comment on the courses if you took one of those before.

1. International English Center (IEC)
Contact: Debra Dais & Charl Norloff, Co-Directors
Phone: (303) 492-5547
Address: 1030 13th Street
Website: http://www.colorado.edu/iec/ESLG_courses.html
(IEC currently offers two writing courses and one speech course. The fee is $595 for non-resident.)

2. Center for Talk Mastery
Contact: Dr. Antonía Johnson, Director
Phone: 303-499-5117
Address: 1800 30th St. 217A
Website: www.talkmastery.com
(Center for Talk Master currently offers accent reduction courses. Check with Antonia about the assessment fee and class fee.)

3. Clearly Speaking Program
Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Department, CU-Boulder
Contact: Leslie Mahler
Location: Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences Building
Website: http://www.colorado.edu/CDSS/slhs/slhcintv.html
(SLHS students in Clearly Speaking Program help you to pronounce words so they are easier to understand. The current students’ supervisor is Mark Guiberson. The fee is 300 dollars with perhaps 10% discount for CU students.)

4. ESL / Multilingual Program in Student Academic Services Center
http://www.colorado.edu/SASC/esl.html
(One of the ESL workshops “Pronunciation Workshop” focuses on the phonetic pronunciation of English vowels and consonants. Not sure if there’s any fee.)

5. Boulder Public Library
http://www.boulder.lib.co.us/special/multicultural/conversations.html
(The Boulder Public Library has a conversation group.)
http://www.boulder.lib.co.us/special/multicultural/english2nd.html

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