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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"International Teaching Assistants"”.
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Understanding Undergraduate Students' Perceptions of International Teaching Assistants
… undergraduate students' perceptions of international teaching assistants (ITAs) at a major research institution. For the purpose of this inquiry data were collected from surveying a sample of 436 of undergraduate students from different colleges and at different class levels. Survey data …
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A Multiple-Case Study Exploring the Experiences of International Teaching Assistants in Engineering
Many international graduate students serve as teaching assistants at US universities. As teaching assistants, they carry out significant responsibilities such as leading lab sessions, grading student work, holding office hours, and proctoring exams. When these international teaching assistants …
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Effects of task values, attributions, and cultural constructs on foreign language use anxiety among international teaching assistants
… societies. Survey data were collected from 226 international teaching assistants at a large southwestern university. The survey instruments included the English Use Anxiety Scale (adapted from Gardner’s French Use Anxiety Scale), Rotter’s Internal-External Locus of Control Scale, a modified …
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Topic development in the English oral proficiency interview for international teaching assistants at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
… for additional questions in order to probe an International Teaching Assistant (ITA) candidate’s oral proficiency in an unscripted interview test. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) had employed SPEAK (Speaking Proficiency English Assessment Kit), a computer-mediated test, to …
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The Effectiveness of Test -Takers' Participation in Development of an Innovative Web -Based Speaking Test for International Teaching Assistants at American Colleges
The results of content analysis of the SPEAK showed the mismatch between the purpose and its use in a local context and the findings from the needs analysis were aligned with the team's decisions on test design considerations reflected into the development. The results of the group dynamics and …
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Native Speakers' Reactions to Non -Native Stress in English Discourse
… include suggestions for incorporating the teaching of English prosody as a component of communicative competence for international teaching assistants and other non-native speakers.
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Composition, Pedagogy, and the Development of Effective Student-Teachers: A Comparative Analysis of Training Programs for Teaching Assistants in English Departments
… A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR TEACHING ASSISTANTS IN ENGLISH DEPARTMENTS MAJOR PROFESSOR: DR. LISA J. MCCLURE The history of teaching assistant training has followed a tenuous road of development. For English departments, the primary role for teaching assistants has always been …
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The effects of self-monitoring strategy use on the pronunciation of learners of English
… the effectiveness of training future international teaching assistants (ITAs) to critically listen to, transcribe, mark corrections (annotate), and orally rehearse English suprasegmental features in their own speech. The suprasegmental features investigated were message unit …
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Teacher-student interaction in one-on-one ESL writing conferences
… study also has implications for the training of international teaching assistants or lecturers, as this study provides a microanalysis of the interaction between American teachers and international students in writing conferences.