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Intercultural Communication Center Self-paced Instruction
Individual appointments focus on developing the skill(s) most needed to develop academic fluency, including pronunciation, grammar usage, general fluency, listening comprehension, and cultural understanding.
Pronunciation
Developing Technical Language
ITA Skills
Job Interviewing Skills

Warner Hall 308
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890
Office: (412) 268-4979
email:
eslhelp@andrew.cmu.edu

  Self-paced Appointments

During self-paced appointments, students can work at their own pace on a variety of videotaped materials. Self-paced hours are intended to supplement tutoring and/or workshops. To make an appointment, call the ICC at x8-4979.

  Video Library

Our library includes more than 50 titles in the areas of pronunciation, U.S. classroom culture, listening comprehension, developing technical and teaching language, and job interviewing skills. Our titles include, but are not limited to, the following:

  Pronunciation

  • Breaking the Accent Barrier
  • How To Pronounce Consonants
  • How To Pronounce Vowels
  • Pronunciation for Success, Pronunciation Fun
  • Pronunciation in American English

  Developing Technical Language

  • The Standard Deviants Educational Video Series:
    • Accounting
    • Biology
    • Calculus I & II
    • Chemistry I - III
    • Differential Equations
    • Microeconomics & Macroeconomics
    • Physics I & II
    • Statistics

  ITA Skills

  • Clarity of Explanations in Natural Sciences and Engineering (Stanford University)
    • Linking
    • Simplifying
  • How to Speak
  • Public Speaking in a Second Language - Fear Not
  • Teaching in America
  • Techniques for Teachers

  Job Interviewing Skills

  • The Employment Interview: American Style
  • Job Interviewing for Nonnative Speakers
  • Success with Job Interviews

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