ANNOUNCEMENT
Date: 07 August 2009
To: All UF Graduate Coordinators, Staff and Students
From: Mr. Gordon Tapper, Coordinator, UF Academic Spoken
English
RE: SPEAK Test Dates and EAP Course Offerings for Fall
2009
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 a SPEAK test (administered on the UF
campus) or a score of 23 or higher on the TOEFL-IBT Speaking component. In
addition, any international graduate teaching assistant whose first language is
not English who scores a 45 or 50 on a SPEAK test, or between 23 27 on the
TOEFL-IBT Speaking component, 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, times and locations for the Fall 2009
semester are as
follows:
SPEAK test dates - Fall 2009
19 August 2009, 4:00 pm, 1317 Turlington Hall*
15 September 2009, 6:00 pm, 1317 Turlington Hall
14 October 2009, 6:00 pm, 1317 Turlington Hall
17 November 2009, 6:00 pm, 1317 Turlington Hall
09 December 2009, 6:00 p.m., 1317 Turlington Hall
*Priority given to new students admitted Fall 2009 for
this test session.
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.
For more information and registration information about
the SPEAK test or ASE course offerings, please visit the ASE website - http://test.ase.ufl.edu/newsyllabi.html,
call the ASE office - 392-3286, or email Gordon Tapper - [log in to unmask].