| Event: |
ELP Practice Group for Instructors Fall 2025 (Session 3): Comprehension Checks, Body Language, and P |
| Starts: |
Friday 9/26/2025 03:30 PM |
| Ends: |
Friday 9/26/2025 04:30 PM |
| Location: |
Zoom (link provided in email from cte-elp@tamu.edu)
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| Presenters: |
Ginessa Payne, Center for Teaching Excellence |
| Hosted By: |
CTE - English Language Proficiency |
| Contact Information: |
cte-elp@tamu.edu |
| Description: |
Third in a series of workshops for international graduate students, faculty, post-docs, and visiting scholars. This interactive workshop demonstrates comprehension checks and body language that reinforces the speaker's message. It promotes comprehensible speech with pauses at appropriate places.
Learning Outcomes: Participants will be able to...
1.Brainstorm some ways to check for audience comprehension.
2.Identify gestures that reinforce the speaker's message.
3.Select appropriate places to pause in a text, based on grammatical structure |