We recently traveled to the Belfer Institute for Advanced Biomedical Studies at Albert Einstein College of Medicine to facilitate a professional development workshop for their International postdocs interested in building language fluency and exploring strategies for clear pronunciation. It was an afternoon of sharing, collaboration, and skill building, helping to support effective science communication. It’s important that postdocs and scholars feel confident and independent when talking about their research. For some, that means a need for pronunciation practice and approaches to independent practice for clear pronunciation. This builds a sense of agency and empowerment that lives well beyond the workshop! It sets learners/trainees on a course of independent goal setting around communication and leaves them with strategies to begin to work towards those goals independently!
Check out some pictures from the day and a testimonial from Toni Burrell, Program Manager at the Belfer Institute.
Interested in learning more about our work? Email mallory@languageconnectedllc.com
Mallory Fix-Lopez discussing the role of ‘thought groups’ as a feature of clear pronunciation.
All workshops are interactive and hands on. Learners work on application of strategies and concepts in each workshop, helping to set the stage for continued, independent practice well beyond the workshop.