New England ITA Network
Fall Meeting
Friday,October 2, 2009
Yale
Agenda
| 9:15-10:00 |
Breakfast, arrivals, introductions |
| 10:00-11:30 |
Representative from Carnegie Speech will demonstrate their materials—Speech Assessment and Native Accent program, comment on how these tools have been used on other campuses, and discuss how our programs might benefit from using this approach to teaching pronunciation. |
| 11:30-12:30 |
Several approaches to pronunciation and oral communication at Yale |
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Doug Honorof—Using improvisation to help improve fluency—case studies from two summer groups |
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Kirk Hughes—How the “vowel dance” helps students gain confidence and improve comprehensibility |
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Julie Vance—A discussion of more traditional approaches |
| 12:30-1:30 |
Lunch |
| 1:30-2:30 |
Still open—possibilities are a discussion of Yale’s Individual Language Tutorials or a time during which we invite those from other campuses to present strategies, assignments or exercises that have helped students improve pronunciation and oral communication skills. |
| 2:30-3:00 |
Planning for future meetings |
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