The purpose of the ITA Oral English Proficiency Screening is to determine whether International ITA can speak English well enough and clearly enough to be understood by the undergraduates whom they teach. All international graduate students for whom English is a second language and who are either appointed as Teaching Assistants or who are required to teach undergraduates as part of their graduate programs.
Students listen to questions on a tape, and their responses are recorded on a computer disk.
August, December, January, and April. Students should arrive 10 minutes before they are scheduled to take the test. They cannot sign up themselves. Their graduate secretary or their Director of Graduate Programs must contact Catherine Morell, Coordinator of Graduate Student Teaching Programs, and provide her with a list of the students, with I.D. numbers, who need to take the test. Ms. Morell will contact all Directors of Graduate Students and Graduate Secretaries about a month before each testing date to get these lists.