OISS is now accepting applications for the undergraduate International Orientation Leader (iOL) position. Due by February 25, 2024.
Managing Your Speech while Giving Presentations
You don’t have to lose your accent while giving an oral presentation to an audience. What is important is that you use verbal and nonverbal strategies to ensure that your audience can hear you and understand you. This workshop will present some effective communicative strategies and will allow attendees to practice. Brought to you by the International Center for Academic and Professional English (ICAPE).
Expanding Your Academic Vocabulary with Corpus Linguistics
Have you second-guessed your language choices when writing a research paper or an essay? This workshop introduces corpus linguistics as a tool to improve your language choices and vocabulary. A corpus can provide a full understanding of a word and answer questions such as “Is this word used in academic writing?” and “What words are usually associated with this word?” Bring a laptop to this workshop to participate in our activities! Brought to you by the International Center for Academic and Professional English (ICAPE).
Leading a Lab
This workshop will focus on the language skills international teaching assistants (ITAs) need to give instructions, explain a procedure, and give warnings and advice, particularly when teaching a lab. Brought to you by the International Center for Academic and Professional English (ICAPE).
Intercultural Communication Workshop
Intercultural communication not only involves skills in communicating with people from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. It also involves tolerance of ambiguity and an openness to negotiate when the “conversational rules’’ are not always explicit. This workshop addresses these hidden rules. Attendees will practice effective strategies for preempting and
managing miscommunication with others. Brough to you by the International Center for Academic and Professional English (ICAPE).
Pronunciation Brush Up for International Teaching Assistants (ITAs)
The workshop will focus on some of the most common pronunciation challenges faced by multilingual speakers, such as syllable stress, sentence stress, and intonation. Attendees will be provided with practical strategies for classroom communication and materials for ongoing practice. This workshop is designed for current or prospective international teaching assistants who want to improve their English pronunciation. Brought to you by the International Center for Academic and Professional English (ICAPE).
Workshop Series: Fundamentals of Academic Essays
This 3-part workshop series covers fundamental features of academic essays across different genres, reading strategies for understanding and analyzing academic articles and literature, and a refresher on common grammatical errors. Register for the workshops here
Session 1: Audience Awareness in Academic Essays, Jan 3rd, 11:30am-12:45pm
Session 2: Reading Strategies for Understanding Academic Texts & Literature, Jan 9th, 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Session 3: Grammar Refresher, Jan 11, 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Workshop Series: Academic Presentations -- Skills and Strategies
Do you wish to enhance your skills related to academic presentations? This 3-part workshops series will allow you to organize and deliver engaging academic presentations. Register for the workshops here
Session 1: Organizing a Presentation, Jan 4th, 3:00-4:15 pm
Session 2: Delivering a Dramatic & Engaging Presentation, Jan 9th 3:00-4:15 pm
Session 3: Speaking Strategies for Academic Presentations, Jan 11th, 2:00-3:15 pm
Workshop Series: Pronunciation for Multilingual Students and Scholars
This 3-part workshop series includes interactive lessons to practice
fundamental features of pronunciation in North American English. Register for the workshops here.
Session 1: Rhythm and Clear Communication, Jan 2nd, 12pm-1:15pm
Session 2: Pronunciation Strategies for Clear Communication, Jan 8nd, 12pm-1:15pm
Session 3: Vowel Sounds, Jan 10th, 12pm-1:15pm
Workshop Series: Academic Presentations -- Skills and Strategies
Do you wish to enhance your skills related to academic presentations? This 3-part workshops series will allow you to organize and deliver engaging academic presentations. Register for the workshops here
Session 1: Organizing a Presentation, Jan 4th, 3:00-4:15 pm
Session 2: Delivering a Dramatic & Engaging Presentation, Jan 9th 3:00-4:15 pm
Session 3: Speaking Strategies for Academic Presentations, Jan 11th, 2:00-3:15 pm
Workshop Series: Conversational English -- Slang and Idioms
This two-part workshop series will introduce real-world
Conversational English that you do not learn in textbooks or in the traditional classroom. Register for the workshops here.
Workshop Series: Fundamentals of Academic Essays
This 3-part workshop series covers fundamental features of academic essays across different genres, reading strategies for understanding and analyzing academic articles and literature, and a refresher on common grammatical errors. Register for the workshops here
Session 1: Audience Awareness in Academic Essays, Jan 3rd, 11:30am-12:45pm
Session 2: Reading Strategies for Understanding Academic Texts & Literature, Jan 9th, 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Session 3: Grammar Refresher, Jan 11, 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Workshop Series: Pronunciation for Multilingual Students and Scholars
This 3-part workshop series includes interactive lessons to practice
fundamental features of pronunciation in North American English. Register for the workshops here.
Session 1: Rhythm and Clear Communication, Jan 2nd, 12pm-1:15pm
Session 2: Pronunciation Strategies for Clear Communication, Jan 8nd, 12pm-1:15pm
Session 3: Vowel Sounds, Jan 10th, 12pm-1:15pm
Workshop Series: Conversational English -- Slang and Idioms
This two-part workshop series will introduce real-world
Conversational English that you do not learn in textbooks or in the traditional classroom. Register for the workshops here.
Workshop Series: Academic Presentations -- Skills and Strategies
Do you wish to enhance your skills related to academic presentations? This 3-part workshops series will allow you to organize and deliver engaging academic presentations. Register for the workshops here
Session 1: Organizing a Presentation, Jan 4th, 3:00-4:15 pm
Session 2: Delivering a Dramatic & Engaging Presentation, Jan 9th 3:00-4:15 pm
Session 3: Speaking Strategies for Academic Presentations, Jan 11th, 2:00-3:15 pm
Workshop Series: Pronunciation for Multilingual Students and Scholars
This 3-part workshop series includes interactive lessons to practice
fundamental features of pronunciation in North American English. Register for the workshops here.
Session 1: Rhythm and Clear Communication, Jan 2nd, 12pm-1:15pm
Session 2: Pronunciation Strategies for Clear Communication, Jan 8nd, 12pm-1:15pm