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Since 2007, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has expanded its collaboration with the Bok Center—which focuses on undergraduate teaching—on a series of initiatives that seek to combat the language barrier between TFs and students in the classroom...
Last fall, the Bok Center began a pilot program called “Oral Communications Skills Course For International TFs.” The students—who hail predominantly from East Asia and study the physical sciences—are joined by two undergraduates in a unique environment that exposes the graduate students to American culture and the Harvard classroom...
...until 2007, there existed no standard method of screening the language skills of foreign TFs. Departments used their own methods of preparing section leaders, ranging from courses that count for credit to a simple day-long workshop at the Bok Center, according to Assistant Dean of the College Logan S. McCarty...
McCarty—who has worked in the Office of Undergraduate Education since 2007—says he has noticed a decrease in undergraduate complaints about their TFs’ language skills, and a rise in CUE guide scores for foreign TFs...
...Harvard, foreign TFs face pedagogical and cultural differences that do not always stem from insufficient language skills, Maurer says...