LSC Workshop

What is a Workshop:

The Listening and Speaking Center offers workshops everyday for students who want to   improve their English communication skills.

In a workshop, the workshop leader provides a topic for discussion, and the students will either talk as a group or in pairs. The leader also answers students’ questions and helps keep the conversation going. 

There is no homework in stand-alone workshops, but preparation may be required for workshops meeting more than once.

Preferred group size:
No more than 8 students 

Current  Workshop Schedule:

How To Sign Up: 

• Students should sign up in advance online. To sign up, please click on Workshop Sign-up.
• Students on the waitlist are encouraged to come to the workshop anyway because students who sign up sometimes don’t show up.
• Each Friday afternoon, new sign up sheets  for the LSC workshops will be available online.

Types of Workshops:

Conversation Workshops concentrate on using informal English and have general topics such as   relationships, traveling, students’ cultures, and other everyday topics.

Specialty Workshops (“Listening”, “Speaking clearly”, “Special Topics”)  include conversation practice, but the goal is to provide students with more information about vocabulary, idioms, and listening and speaking skills. For more information, click here.

ESL 251/253 Support Workshops are designed to help ESL 251 and 253 students understand the topics covered in their classes better and keep building their oral communication as well as grammar and writing skills. For more information and Spring 2013 schedule, click here.  

Workshop Topics:

Download examples of workshop topics.

Time Sheet for LSC Activities:

Download the time sheet to keep a record of your LSC activities to submit to your instructor.

We look forward to seeing you in the LSC workshops.

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