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Click the link to see the Power-Up! Tutorial 1 syllabus:
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Click for a video of the Power-Up! Tutorial in action:
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| The Power-Up! Tutorial (PUT) in the School of Contemporary International Studies (SCIS) is a first-year oral communication program. It is unusual in its ratio of 1 native-speaking tutor for 3 students. Supporting the 4-year Integrated English Program (IEP), it plays an important role in both the department of English and Contemporary Society (ECS) and the department of Global Business (GB).
In the PUT, 5 different tutors, each with a unique combination of English dialect, background, and life experience, tutor the 15 students in each of 16 PUT sections. Tutors come from Australia, Canada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Trinidad & Tobago, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In a relaxed, supportive environment, students learn English language and culture and develop confidence in communicating in spoken English. Introduced in the textbook, Tools for Increasing Proficiency in Speaking (TIPS), students use various language-learning tools and procedures—such as conversation cards, recordings, transcriptions, and self evaluations—to increase their English speaking and listening skills. By creating a conversation card about a particular topic almost every week, students prepare what they generally want to say before class and then improve their ability to talk about these topics with successive attempts assisted by tutors. Click the links to see movie clips of the Power-Up! Tutorial in action and the NUFS PRESS Spotlight on the Power-Up! Tutorial. |
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