Tutoring Groups
International Teaching Assistants (ITA) Tutoring Groups are non-credit tutoring sessions available through the Office of the Provost for international teaching assistants and international teaching fellows (ITA/ITFs) who have scored a 3 or below on the ITA English Language Comprehensibility Test.
ITA Tutoring Groups are designed to help students:
- Improve their pronunciation.
- Develop their public speaking skills in English.
- Prepare to retake the English Language Comprehensibility Test.
ITA Tutoring Groups meet for one hour and fifteen minutes each week for ten weeks and are offered in the fall and spring.
Students must be recommended for a tutoring group.
Classroom Communication Course
Classroom Communication for International Teaching Assistants (CCITA) is a non-credit course and is available to all International Teaching Assistants and Fellows ( ITAs/ITFs) at Pitt.
Students who have scored a 4 or below on the ITA English Language Comprehensibility Test are recommended to take this course. CCITA is designed to help students:
- improve their English speaking skills,
- develop strategies for instruction and managing learning situations in an American university environment,
- deepen their knowledge of American general and academic culture, and
- prepare to retake the English Language Comprehensibility Test.
The CCITA course meets for two hours each week for 12weeks and is usually offered in the fall, but the course can be offered in the spring with sufficient enrollment.
Students are recommended for this course based on their score on the ITA English Comprehensibility Test.
There is no cost to students to participate in either of these opportunities.
Registration in the ITA Tutoring Groups and the CCITA course does not appear on students’ transcripts; however, Final Reports indicating attendance and Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory progress are provided to students and to their departments.
For more information, students should email Stacy Ranson in the English Language Institute at sar72@pitt.edu or the Graduate Administrator in their department.