Baruch College, Tools for Clear Speech

This academic support center at Baruch College offers workshops, one-on-one support, and even online feedback through VOCAT for ELL and NNS students. Baruch students can work with a speech consultant to improve pronunciation, intelligibility and pragmatic abilities. The Center is currently exploring how to also offer support to CUNY faculty, but it’s worthwhile to check the many sample exercises and other useful links on the site in the meantime.

U of Illinois, “Communication Strategies for the Classroom: Student Slang”

List of slang words and phrases that students might use to refer to school practices, activities and classroom dynamics

U of Michigan, “Corpus of Academic Spoken English” 

This is a collection of transcripts of academic speech events recorded at the University of Michigan. It is a good source to understand how people speak English in academic settings.

Ohio State U, “Communication Strategies for Non-Native English Speakers”

List of advice for non-native English speakers, focusing on different pronunciations, sounds and words.

Ohio State U. “Common Educational Terms Used in Teaching and Learning”

Glossary with terms and acronyms that are useful to navigate the university bureaucracy (like different types of grading, or terms to refer to different types of assignment).