Posts Tagged ‘international’

Are you a non-native English speaker interested in improving your English skills and receiving coaching on handling cross-cultural interactions in the workplace? If so, you’re invited to attend four sessions of “Linguistic Advancement for Non-Native English Speakers.” Classes will provide a supportive environment to improve your language structure, pragmatic skills and conversational confidence. This is meant to be a fun and interactive series with lots of opportunities for you to ask questions about language and … Read More

Are you a non-native English speaker interested in improving your English skills and receiving coaching on handling cross-cultural interactions in the workplace? If so, please join us for four sessions of Linguistic Advancement for Non-Native English Speakers. Classes will provide a supportive environment to improve your language structure, pragmatic skills and conversational confidence.  This will be a fun and interactive series with lots of opportunities for you to ask questions about language and culture. We … Read More

Seats are still available! Do you hire and manage international employees at OHSU?  Are you interested in learning more about best practices for supporting them as productive, high-contributing team members? If so, please join us for Welcoming and Supporting Your International Employees. This course will help you develop skills for communicating and managing across cultures and creating a workplace environment that fosters collaboration and innovation. After this course managers will be better able to: Support … Read More

Right now, there are 1,200 speech researchers from around the world attending the largest global annual conference on spoken language processing right here in Portland. The conference, InterSpeech 2012, is being organized by OHSU’s Center for Spoken Language Understanding and the International Speech Communication Association. “We are very excited to bring InterSpeech to Portland,” said Richard Sproat, Ph.D., chair of the conference, CSLU associate director and professor. “It is a great opportunity to highlight CSLU and the … Read More