Accent Reduction Course for
Full-Time Teaching Faculty
Description
Do you want to improve your American accent? Would accent reduction help you communicate with your students and colleagues? Are you a full-time faculty member who teaches at any USC campus, and are interested in receiving professional accent reduction training at no cost while interacting with your peers? If yes, the Center for Teaching Excellence may be able to help.
Throughout the course, faculty will receive professional, individualized training in an interactive environment designed to improve English pronunciation. The course will begin with a pronunciation diagnostic, followed by instruction and practice. Participants will receive an American Accent Training textbook and a handheld voice recorder for practice. Participants will also be filmed and given a one-on-one diagnostic and pronunciation counseling session along with a copy of the diagnostic DVD. The course will conclude with a pronunciation diagnostic to summarize progress.
Course Schedule
To provide effective training, class size is limited. Applicants who are selected are expected to actively participate in all class sessions and out-of-class exercises. Class sessions will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:00 - 6:30 p.m., January 19th to March 29th, 2012 in Room 104 of the Byrnes Building.
About the Instructor
Ann Janosik has been teaching English as a Second Language since 1996. Her specialty is in American English pronunciation, and she has taught numerous pronounciation classes and given teacher training workshops and classes to English language teachers from around the world. Ms. Janosik has a passion for training non-native speakers to hear and understnad their accent issues and providing them with a range of resources for effecting change. She holds a B.A. fro the College of William and Mary and an M.A. TESOL from Columbia International University.
For Additional Information
Contact the Center for Teaching Excellence at (803) 777-8322 or cte@sc.edu.