Position Descriptions
Tutorial Instructor Position
.25 Teaching Assistant
10 Hours per Week
Applicants who have taken coursework in Second Language Studies, English as a Second Language, TESOL, Applied Linguistics and Linguistics and will be given preference for tutorial instructor positions.
This position serves as a tutorial instructor for the OEPP (Oral English Proficiency Program). The OEPP provides non-credit assistance in English as a Second Language to help candidates for graduate teaching assistantships develop oral language competence and acquire cultural knowledge necessary for effective communication teaching in North American academic contexts.
Tutorial instructors provide one-on-one teaching, auxiliary instruction and practice for students enrolled in English 620: "Classroom Communication for International Teaching Assistants."
Tutorial instructors provide individualized instruction that is not easily met via classroom instruction, as well as ensuring immediate feedback and error correction. Tutorial sessions may focus on any or all of the following:
- intelligible pronunciation, stress and intonation patterns;
- listening comprehension;
- vocabulary pertaining to and beyond subject matter;
- coherent organization of information at sentence and discourse level.
Students enrolled in English 620 receive 50 minutes of tutoring time per week. Tutorial instructors meet with students for eight or fewer hours per week, and use the remaining time for administrative tasks, such as completing evaluation forms.
Tutorial Instructor Application Form
Testing Office Assistant Position
.25 or .50 Teaching Assistant
10 or 20 Hours per Week
Applicants who have taken coursework in Linguistics or Applied Linguistics, and/or Statistics, and who have experience with statistical software packages, will be given preference for testing office positions.
This position works in the OEPP (Oral English Proficiency Program) testing office, handling a variety of tasks under the supervision of the director of testing and the administrative testing office coordinator.
Testing office assistants administer the Oral English Proficiency Test, a semi-direct computer-based test, to approximately 700 students per year. Testing office assistants set up the computer lab for testing, check-in students are they arrive to take the OEPT, and back-up testing files at the conclusion of the test administration. They also assign tests to be scored to raters, and prepare the final score reports.
In addition, testing office assistants run a variety of statistical reports and analyses. They will also assist with special projects. Past projects have included assisting with the development of the updated OEPT, working with the rater training program, and updating the practice test website.