Content-Type: text/html ANNOUNCEMENT Date: 15 December 2006 To: All UF Graduate Coordinators, Staff and Students From: Gordon Tapper UF Academic Spoken English Coordinator [log in to unmask] Re: Spring 2007 SPEAK Test Dates and EAP Course Offerings All international graduate students whose first language is not English (official first language of home country) and who may be appointed as teaching assistants (with lecturing/lab responsibilities) need to have a passing score (45 or higher) on either a TSE (Test of Spoken English -- administered by ETS) or a SPEAK test (administered on the UF campus.) In addition, any international graduate teaching assistant whose first language is not English who scores a 45 or 50 on a SPEAK or TSE test and who is appointed to teach (with lecturing/lab responsibilities) must enroll, during their first semester teaching, in a 3-credit EAP 5836 course. International graduate students appointed as TA-G (grading and office hour responsibilities only) are neither required to pass a SPEAK test nor eligible to enroll in EAP 5836. SPEAK test dates for the Spring 2007 and Summer 2007 semesters are as follows: Date Time Location Jan 04 2007* 12:00 noon Turlington 1317* Feb 13 2007 6:00 p.m. Turlington 1317 Mar 21 2007 4:00 p.m. Turlington 1317 Apr 17 2007 6:00 p.m. Turlington 1317 May 16 2007 6:00 p.m. Turlington 1317 Jun 19 2007 6:00 p.m. Turlington 1317 Jul 18 2007 6:00 p.m. Turlington 1317 *Priority given to new students admitted in Spring 2007 Information about SPEAK test registration as well as our oral communications in English courses can be accessed through our program website -- http://ase.ufl.edu or by telephone -- 392-3286. Please note that course time information about our ASE courses is available in ISIS listed under Linguistics. Gordon Tapper Coordinator Academic Spoken English Yon 313 (352) 392-3286 http://ase.ufl.edu